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Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-17 Cached

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a pyrimidone-based molecule that absorbs sunlight, stores energy in chemical bonds, and releases heat on demand, achieving an energy density of 1.6 MJ/kg and demonstrating the ability to boil water, offering a promising approach for long-term solar energy storage.

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