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silence7@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago

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

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

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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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    That’s so cool! It even sounds cool: sand battery.

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    For more on strange batteries, Half As Interesting did a really cool video on different ways we do long-term energy storage.

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    As long as you can expect some periods of very cheap energy before its cold so you can warm it up again, seems like a decent idea actually.

    How do they heat it, ideally would be using heat pumps.

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