As global energy demand accelerates, one truth remains underappreciated: heat is the largest end use of energy. Today, more than 50 percent of global final energy consumption is dedicated to ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Batteries are the key to the future of the most abundant sources of renewable energy, solar and wind power for one obvious reason: intermittence. If power generators want to replace fossil fuels ...

Researchers from India’s National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra and the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) Gurugram have created a prototype solar geyser system that uses ordinary ...

A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of crushed ...

For more than a century, fossil fuel companies have drilled oil and gas wells to increase the production, consumption, and export of fossil fuels. These wells are often abandoned once they are no ...

A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...

Developed by Italian dry bottom ash handling system provider Magaldi Power, the system produces green thermal energy — steam or hot air — which can be used directly in industrial plants or for the ...

Storing energy can be done in many ways, with the chemical storage method of a battery being one of the most common. Another option is a thermal battery, which basically means making something hot, ...

Anyone stepping barefoot across a hot beach knows sand stores heat. A University of Dayton researcher is working on extracting and storing heat from that sand and other sand-like materials, which ...