The Texas freeze of the past two week has taken on a new role – that of the bad example. They say that no man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example. Well so can Texas. In a way we mean a good example. You try it. Start with “unlike gas, if it froze up here suddenly, do I know a technology that would still work?” and here interject your technology of choice. Two have come to prominence in the last week, both involve temperatures although they are not both thermal storage; the Siemens Gamesa Electric Thermal Energy Storage (ETES) system which is thermal (in red in the diagram) and is hot, and the Highview Power…