Finland is leading the race to decarbonise industrial heat emissions, using sand to produce fossil-free steam.

  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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    22 minutes ago

    It’s a thermal battery to capture renewable peak output.

    The headline is confusing.

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    2 hours ago

    Oh that’s clever. I hope it lives up to the claimed cost savings, because if it does it’s much more likely to see rapid adoption

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    1 hour ago

    This stored heat can be used in industrial processes regardless of real-time electricity availability.

    If this scales and becomes affordable this can really have a big impact.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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      1 hour ago

      Of course you could use that source, but the topic here is not about the source of electrical energy. It is about storage and constant availability.