Improving the efficiency of heating and cooling systems - especially through thermal energy storage - offers one of the ...

Some thermal storage media are familiar to most of us, but what about gravel? Or lake water? See how those can work in the right environments, and tuck this away as a general refresher on thermal ...

Thermal batteries could transform renewable energy storage and provide a cheaper and scalable alternative to lithium-ion technology. "Intermittent wind and solar power are becoming the cheapest forms ...

Rondo Energy hopes hot bricks could help clean up manufacturing. Rondo Energy just turned on what it says is the world’s largest thermal battery, an energy storage system that can take in electricity ...

The Kraftblock team at the site of one of their firm's thermal batteries, installed at a ceramics plant. The battery is the white container connected to the building via the chrome pipes. About half ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Researchers at Texas A&M University are perfecting a deceptively ...

Phase change materials (PCMs) represent a pivotal class of substances that store and release thermal energy through reversible transitions between solid and liquid states. Their ability to absorb or ...

Jaicky Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Voltanova – a deep-tech firm incubated by the Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development (FSID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – speaks to pv ...

PV-thermal energy with heat pumps, aquifer thermal storage in buildings Researchers in the Netherlands have simulated a residential energy system combining PV, solar thermal, and PV-thermal panels ...

The Series A round, led by venture capital firm DCVC, with participation from Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Black Venture Capital Consortium, will support the construction of the company's 1 MWh-e ...