#thermalbattery — Public Fediverse posts

📺 "Why the US Government Buried This Battery" by @mattferrell

🗒 "It turns the groundwater under your feet into an underground thermal battery, and the Netherlands has been running ATES this way for more than 30 years."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjKnDdsWoG8&t=824

#thermalbattery #heatbattery #greenenergy #environment #energy

What a massive #thermalbattery means for energy storage
System has been operating for 10 weeks and achieved all efficiency and reliability benchmarks. Bricks reach temperatures over 1,000C (1,800F), and over 97% of the energy put into system is returned as heat.
Thermal battery concept is simple: Use electricity to heat up some cheap, sturdy material and keep it hot until you want to use that heat later, either directly in an industrial process or to produce electricity.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/23/1126419/thermal-batteries-energy-storage/

#MIT spinout's #electricbricks store heat hotter than lava
Partnership is about scaling up #ElectrifiedThermal’s #JouleHive #ThermalBattery, which conducts clean power and stores it as heat up to scorching 1,800C (3,275F). Hot enough to drive even most energy-hungry industrial processes like steelmaking, glass, or cement production.
#Ebricks enable factories to ditch fossil fuels and run on renewables without sacrificing performance or reliability, and at a lower cost.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/24/mit-spinout-electric-bricks-store-heat-hotter-than-lava/

Thermal Batteries for Lower Carbon Industrial Processes https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/thermal-batteries-for-lower-carbon-industrial-processes/ #industrialprocess #refractorybrick #thermalbattery #thermalstorage #chromeoxide #greenhacks #heatenergy #chromia #e-brick

Thermal Batteries for Lower Carbon Industrial Processes - Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many ind... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/thermal-batteries-for-lower-carbon-industrial-processes/ #industrialprocess #refractorybrick #thermalbattery #thermalstorage #chromeoxide #greenhacks #heatenergy #chromia #e-brick

#FunFactFriday: The World’s largest Sand Battery is now in operation in Finland. Built by Polar Night Energy, it delivers 1 MW of thermal power with a storage capacity of 100 MWh! Are you excited to see Polar Night Energy bring the heat? News Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOSNm0GURxk

#Batteries #SandBattery #ThermalBattery

On a podcast episode with @drvolts Learned about this new home heat pump system that pairs with a large hot water tank and functions like a home battery system. Really clever!

Feels like a pretty perfect solution for the house I just moved to here in #minnesota , but doesn't look like it is available here quite yet.

#heatPumps #electrification #thermalBattery

Podcast episode and links to the company here:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/heat-pumps-with-thermal-batteries

The York Handmade Brick Company have received a grant to help them convert their kiln so that the waste heat is captured in a thermal battery to be used in their drying room which is usually heated with a gas burner.

#GoodNews #Bricks #Investment #Tech #Kiln #ThermalBattery #Heat

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23430731.york-handmade-brick-easingwold-cutting-carbon-emissions/

Making a Do-It-Yourself Sand Battery - Storing energy can be done in many ways, with the chemical storage method of a bat... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/21/making-a-do-it-yourself-sand-battery/ #thermalbattery #thermalstorage #greenhacks

Cool the Shop with a Thermal Battery-Based System - Having any kind of shop is pretty great, no matter how large it may be or where it... - https://hackaday.com/2022/01/01/cool-the-shop-with-a-thermal-battery-based-system/ #thermalbattery #arduinohacks #watercooling #mischacks #arduino