Breakthrough Tech Heats Homes Cheaper Than Natural Gas!


We talk a lot about energy storage, but usually in the form of electricity storage. But a large percentage of the energy used around the world is for heating and cooling. And while storing energy in batteries, to then use to heat your home, has proved valuable, what if we just stored the heat directly? That’s what this Finnish company believes they’ve done with their groundbreaking sand battery! Breakthrough Tech Heats Homes Cheaper Than Natural Gas!

How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?

In the past, power generating plants were only able to serve their local areas. As power plants grew larger and further away from populated areas, the need for ways to efficiently move electricity over long distances has become more and more important. Stringing power lines across the landscape to connect cities to power plants may seem as simple as connecting an extension cord to an outlet, but the engineering behind these electric superhighways is more complicated and fascinating than you might think.

Blockchain explained with Animations

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Blockchain is the technology that underpins Cryptocurrencies. In our current society, we rely on trust in centralized intermediaries that they are doing the right thing with our data or money. When you send money to your mother, you rely on and trust that your bank is keeping records correctly and not being fraudulent. Often due to this issue of trust the current system needs some clunky safeguards, checks, and balances and legal frameworks, which all slow transfers down and also makes it more costly, and with all this, still does not guarantee that there are no malefactors even within those systems. And if this status quo trust was to erode the whole system would fall apart. So to create true decentralization we need an infrastructure/system that is transparent and that can create provable and unquestionable trust, when this is achieved, it can be built on top of without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

Is Blockchain Technology the Future? | The Crypto Mile explains

On this week’s show, our host Brian McGleenon is joined by founder of Cardano Charles Hoskinson, Input-Output director of Africa operations John O’Connor and Obama administration presidential appointee and executive director of the Blockchain Foundation Cleve Mesidor. This episode sees the contributors discuss the potential of blockchain technology to forge the foundation of web3 and disrupt legacy systems of government, finance and logistics across the globe.

How A Sand Battery Could Change The Energy Game

As you know, efficient energy storage systems are the conundrum of making the most out of intermittent renewable energy. Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, it’s a glaring problem we have to solve, which is why so many different battery technologies are being explored and developed. To the point that some of them are now coming out of the sand … that’s what recently happened in Finland where the world’s first commercial sand battery technology went live this past July. How does it work and is it a viable path for storing energy? Let’s see if we can come to a decision on this.