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A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%

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A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70%

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Technology@beehaw.org · 5 days ago

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Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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That’s a really great application. I wonder if a thermal battery could be used for both heating and cooling.
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Drake Landing Alberta

Worked well, but of course they shut it down.

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