"The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday that leading business interests fear would lead to an age of expensive power and rolling blackouts.
If passed by the House, state S.B. 715 would require all renewable projects — even existing ones — to buy backup power, largely from coal or gas plants.
This would require solar plants in particular to buy backup power to “match their output at night — a time when no one expects them to produce energy and when demand is typically at its lowest anyway,” consultant and energy expert Doug Lewin wrote in an April analysis"
Checkout RayGen in Australia. They provide 24hr power with sunshine power
Edit: its with heated and non heated water powering rankin engines
Searching… it’s batteries
They’re not allowed to use those
Chemical batteries or all “batteries”. Sounds ridiculous both ways… But anyway.
Lots of things get called batteries now days, but AFAIK this is a temperature gradient of salt water.
Ehh, the word sounds odd but works. Batteries may be invented in some weird ways as of recent. That’s just a part of the path towards inventing a good solution: not all ideas are going to be the best.
As for how weird? Whatever, as long as they work
You didn’t say which batteries were not allowed.
Its ridiculous to think that batteries are “not allowed” at all.
What? No batteries in general. Why are you moving the goalpost beyond the bill it’s about?
What is a battery? (In the eyes of this bill)