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Yeah, thermal batteries are great mainly just when you actually want heat. Think district heating or industrial processes. Trying tk drive a turbine with it to do other work loses you an order of magnitude in efficiency.
Right, that's what this new technology is, a liquid thermal battery. There's not electricity or motion generated by the OP article, just storing heat.