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

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

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

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and Loviisan Lämpö, a district heating company in Finland, plan to construct an industrial-scale thermal energy sand-based storage system in the municipality of ...

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 ...

Energy from renewable sources can be stored in a sand heat storage system. A system with circulating sand is said to be particularly effective. Finnish start-up The Storage has installed a heat ...

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

Finland is harnessing the unexpected power of sand to decarbonise industrial heat – a major “blind spot” in global emissions. Industrial heat production is one of the largest and hardest-to-solve ...