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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat.

When you think of energy solutions, you might not imagine 100 tonnes of builders’ sand piled inside a huge silo. But one company has actually found that sand can be the secret sauce to energy storage, ...

Lithium-ion batteries dominate headlines, but most global energy storage relies on simpler methods. These methods include pumped hydro, compressed air, gravity, and thermal storage using sand or rock.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Polar Night Energy’s heat storage system is a 23-foot-tall steel container filled with 100 tons of sand. (Polar Night Energy uses the lowest grade of sand that isn’t used in construction.) Hot air ...

When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity -- heat is also a valuable ...