The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

Jaicky Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Voltanova – a deep-tech firm incubated by the Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development (FSID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – speaks to pv ...

The Kraftblock team at the site of one of their firm's thermal batteries, installed at a ceramics plant. The battery is the white container connected to the building via the chrome pipes. About half ...

Rondo Energy hopes hot bricks could help clean up manufacturing. Rondo Energy just turned on what it says is the world’s largest thermal battery, an energy storage system that can take in electricity ...

Last September, the Western U.S. was hit with a 10-day heat wave that broke temperature records across the region, including in California. Air conditioning surged and with it, a record demand in ...

Phase change materials (PCMs) represent a pivotal class of substances that store and release thermal energy through reversible transitions between solid and liquid states. Their ability to absorb or ...

For many industries, lithium batteries just don’t cut it — they’re getting increasingly expensive, require too much space, and sometimes are just overkill for many industrial use cases. Thermal ...

PV-thermal energy with heat pumps, aquifer thermal storage in buildings Researchers in the Netherlands have simulated a residential energy system combining PV, solar thermal, and PV-thermal panels ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Researchers at Texas A&M University are perfecting a deceptively ...

An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the ...

A recent article in the Journal of Energy Storage investigated the impact of non-linear porosity distributions in copper foam on the thermal performance and melting behavior of palmitic acid, a phase ...