| Thread Tools |
8th July 2022, 07:14 | #1 |
[M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
Posts: 149,135
| Finns open first commercial sand battery Better than making sandcastles Polar Night Energy says it's just opened its first commercial sand battery at the premises of "new energy" company Vatajankoski, a few hours out of Helsinki. For those who don’t know, a sand battery is a thermal energy storage system, built around a big, insulated steel tank -- around 4 meters (13.1 ft) wide and 7 meters (23 ft) high – and full of sand. When this sand is heated up, using a simple heat exchanger buried in the middle of it, it can storing an impressive 8 megawatt-hours of energy, at a nominal power rating of 100 kW, with the sand heated to somewhere around 500-600 degrees Celsius (932-1112F). https://fudzilla.com/news/55108-finn...l-sand-battery |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
This 'sand' battery stores renewable energy as heat | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 7th July 2022 07:11 |
The Finns who refuse to give up on Sailfish OS | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 6th March 2018 05:21 |
Microsoft has angered the Finns | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 31st May 2016 17:26 |
What petrified sand dunes look like on Mars | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 14th September 2015 07:26 |
iFixit cracks open an iPhone 6 Plus to get at the massive battery inside | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 19th September 2014 13:07 |
New sand-based Li-ion battery outperforms industry standard | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 9th July 2014 08:51 |
Star Wars City Threatened By Sand Storms | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 25th July 2013 07:15 |
iFixit pries open Google's Nexus 4, exposes somewhat stubborn battery | Stefan Mileschin | WebNews | 0 | 19th November 2012 07:07 |
Intel Sand Bridge CPU Official Reviews | jmke | WebNews | 1 | 3rd January 2011 14:41 |
How to Make a CPU: From Sand to Shelf | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 11th June 2010 22:50 |
Thread Tools | |
| |