Anyone who has ever hot-footed it barefoot across the beach on a sunny day walks away with a greater understanding of just how much heat sand can retain. That ability is expected to play a vital role in the future, as technology involving heated sand becomes part of the answer … [continued]
Malta Energy Storage began as one of the “moonshot” projects assigned to X, the innovation branch of Google. Now it has been spun off into a separate standalone business. Can it survive the rigors of the marketplace?
Using giant vats of molten salt and antifreeze under the codename “Malta,” Google’s parent company Alphabet is joining Tesla and smaller companies that are developing ways to store wind and solar power affordably to expand renewables and combat climate change.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath The University of South Australia researchers behind a low-cost energy storage solution that uses salt to store excess electricity have been honoured in Australia’s top science awards, winning the ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology. The “phase change” energy storage technology, … [continued]
