When Judy Cardell was finishing graduate school at MIT, her goal was to work for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She landed a job there, only to discover it wasn’t the right fit after all, ...

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 ...

The increasing reliance on renewable energy sources like solar and wind power necessitates the development of robust and efficient energy storage solutions. Various energy storage technologies, ...

Vantaa Energy, an urban energy company jointly owned by the cities of Vantaa and Helsinki, is planning the construction of the world’s largest seasonal heat storage system. At more than 1 million ...

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 ...

An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the ...

Australian startup MGA Thermal said it has secured new funds to provide a foundation for the next phase of its growth. The funds will facilitate the commissioning of an automated production line at ...

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Thermal stratification in water storage tanks refers to the natural formation of distinct temperature layers within the tank, where warmer water tends to reside above cooler water. This phenomenon is ...

Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas ...