Brewing beer on a large scale requires large amounts of hot steam for fermentation. Rather than relying on fossil fuels, ...

Batteries are the key to the future of the most abundant sources of renewable energy, solar and wind power for one obvious reason: intermittence. If power generators want to replace fossil fuels ...

A huge sand battery is set to slash the carbon emissions of a Finnish town. The industrial-scale storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world’s biggest sand battery when it comes ...

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Engineers in Finland may have discovered a cheap and effective way to get the most out of their country's wind and solar power systems. Polar Night Energy claims to have constructed "the first ...

In a small Finnish town called Pornainen, a groundbreaking invention is turning heads around the world. Finland has just unveiled the world’s largest sand battery—a giant structure that stores heat ...

Sometimes it’s not sunny enough to depend on solar power, or windy enough to turn the windmill. So, Finnish researchers have devised a year-round, 24/7 energy source: a battery made from sand. Markku ...

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's ...

The community swimming pool in the Finnish town of Kankaanpää is heated with sand—well, a sand battery, to be more specific. Energy utility Vatajankoski has partnered with Polar Night Energy, a ...

A company in Finland has created an an unusual storage solution for renewable energy: One that uses sand instead of lithium ion or other battery technologies. Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...