Looking through some of the comments, it does not look good.
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Sand can retain heat for a longer period compared to water.
Good point, water needs continous power input to maintain the heat and no retention to speak of.
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They say the sand goes up to 500+ degrees Celsius - water you are limited to just under 100 degrees - you don't want to play with steam.Sand is a better insulator than water, but has less heat capacity than the same volume of water. A geyser has both an insulating layer, and a water outlet. A pile of sand needs some mechanism to get the heat out, otherwise it is a rather non-linear source of warmth.
Once again there are industrial solutions, but the infrastructure requirements are prohibitive:
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another type of element maybe like the stove spiral elements someone posted about
A Ceramic heating elements would probably be better than a standard element.
yea lots are going wasted especially if you have low baseload
time | kwh produced | cumulative % to x time |
07:00:00 | 0.12 | 0.46% |
07:30:00 | 0.41 | 1.56% |
08:00:00 | 0.95 | 3.63% |
08:30:00 | 1.75 | 6.68% |
09:00:00 | 2.79 | 10.65% |
09:30:00 | 3.97 | 15.15% |
10:00:00 | 5.33 | 20.34% |
10:30:00 | 6.81 | 25.99% |
11:00:00 | 8.38 | 31.98% |
11:30:00 | 10 | 38.17% |
12:00:00 | 11.8 | 45.04% |
12:30:00 | 13.5 | 51.53% |
13:00:00 | 15.2 | 58.02% |
13:30:00 | 17 | 64.89% |
14:00:00 | 18.6 | 70.99% |
14:30:00 | 20.2 | 77.10% |
15:00:00 | 21.6 | 82.44% |
15:30:00 | 22.9 | 87.40% |
16:00:00 | 24 | 91.60% |
16:30:00 | 24.9 | 95.04% |
17:00:00 | 25.6 | 97.71% |
17:30:00 | 26 | 99.24% |
18:00:00 | 26.2 | 100.00% |
The opposite actually, remember the desert gets extremely cold at night, sand is terrible at retaining heat. Great at absorbing it
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