Engineers are turning to a chemistry that ancient Romans perfected two millennia ago to build thermal batteries capable of ...

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 ...

The New York Power Authority is researching and demonstrating emerging technologies to support its clean energy transition.

Ever since Benjamin Franklin’s lightning experiment in the 18th century, civilization has been intrigued by the idea of capturing lightning in a bottle. Over time, however, the idea evolved from ...

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 ...

Heating and cooling in buildings account for roughly 15% of global carbon emissions, making efficiency gains disproportionately impactful. Thermal energy storage can significantly reduce emissions and ...

The Japanese conglomerate and the Osaka Metropolitan University are testing an aquifer thermal energy storage system that directly uses 10,000 m3 of groundwater stored at 5 C in a cooling well. It is ...

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 ...

Fourth Power, Inc., a startup based in Pittsburgh, is building a thermal battery that stores surplus renewable electricity as extreme heat in carbon blocks, reaching temperatures of 2,400 degrees ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is home to the first full-scale system showcasing a novel and commercially scaled method ...

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 ...

The city of Oak Ridge and Shift Thermal will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 to unveil a new thermal energy storage system installed at the Oak Ridge Recreation Center, ...