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 ...

Heat pumps and other building thermal systems can cut energy use in buildings, but real-world efficiency often falls short due to part-load operation, ...

Energy from renewable sources needs efficient storage systems to stabilize power grids, make industrial processes more ...

Lehigh engineers have engineered, built, and tested an innovative thermal energy storage prototype system that combines sensible and latent heat transfer to achieve fast and efficient thermal ...

A British-Chinese research group has developed a novel heat pump concept consisting of a heat pump, the PCM tank, and tube solar heat collectors. Intended for demand shifting in space heating and ...

Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat. Half of global energy demand is for heating, not power. They are simple, scalable, and far cheaper ...

Researchers in China have developed a heating pipeline compressed-air energy storage (HP-CAES) concept that repurposes urban district heating networks as large-scale storage vessels for surplus ...

Many processes that generate electricity also produce heat, a potent energy resource that often goes untapped everywhere from factories to vehicles to power plants. An innovative system currently ...

Systems that store energy as heat could help cut emissions from heavy industry. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every ...