Not a Cold Day on the Sand
The Finns have taken sand and turned it into an energy storage battery. Using insulated holding tanks that are 4 meters in diameter by 7 meters high filled with hundreds of tons of sand, the unit can store 8 MW-hours of heat, when the sand is heated to 500-600°C. The heat is used to keep […]
A Battery That Never Goes Dead
The most troublesome problem with wind or solar power systems is the weather. For the energy these systems create there needs to be a way to store the excess energy and then be able to deliver that excess energy precisely when it is needed. One innovative way to store this energy is to use what […]
