Polar Night Energy has developed a thermal energy storage system which supplements renewable energy sources and reduces our ...

Energy from renewable sources can be stored in a sand heat storage system. A system with circulating sand is said to be ...

A new solution could tackle one of the hardest-to-solve global sources of carbon emissions: industrial heat production.<br /><br /> ...

Finland is turning one of the planet’s most ordinary materials into a high impact climate tool, using hot sand to store vast ...

As global energy demand accelerates, one truth remains underappreciated: heat is the largest end use of energy. Today, more than 50 percent of global final energy consumption is dedicated to ...

Cleantech start-up TheStorage has installed a sand-based thermal storage pilot at a brewery in Finland to provide fossil-free industrial heat.

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...