in tucked the group a head of denmark earlier slovenia again, serbia also ended in 81 old troll. right, you're up to date dw, business looks at have the increasing amount of clean energy from renewable sources could be stored more effectively in the future states you for that? for me. the team here, thanks for watching the shows, either in spring and do the same way you expect and more different things from life than your parents. i just want to pursue what that's my thought or you think your kid is 2 different risk, irresponsible. reasonable stop in port in those nonsense. i was under the dr. joe in the canal. it's time to get a new generation was

a sleep asked and then when generations mash watch now on the tune dw, don't you mentioned this kind of fun? it feels like therapy the this is the rose for a sand sponsoring. it's filled with $100.00 tons of sand. it can harness renewable energy storing us as he's and there are more in the pipeline. click on a band here, i was just send furthering the world. the song phones for you is just one of a handful of feet. boundaries on demarcus. want to use renewable energy when the sun isn't shining or when the wind is blowing, then we need to have it stored. so we're looking at some simple are seen materials . harnessing energy as he's on this episode of transforming based on based on here,

is beside the point of the sun storage. this is the size of what would be the world's biggest sun battery. i'd like to talk about. it's a that they made us, it'll be toner, then it's neighboring, a wood burning town. here in the small town of poor 9 and in southern finland, we are outside to replace here about 60 percent of our districts eating photos for double chips. and then further is able to, to, to fax me, copa john and head of a finish district, cheese and company that's invested in the sun battery technology. it's building the battery to store renewable electricity as he's when needed be he's will then be sent back in 2.9 and district teasing network 2 and a half. i always drive away in the west of finland. does the 1st son boss re ever built? it's 10 times smaller than the one to be built in 49, and it's a 4 major wide, 7 meters, high steel silo with

a 100 tons of locally sore sand inside. that's about the same way as a blue flower. sand is used here because there's lots of us in this area. so i'm just made up of lots of small particles with the large surface area because of this can store sheets very well. think of being on a beach in summer and how hot sun can feel underneath your face. the boss restores electricity in the sand as a range, $500.00 to $600.00 degrees celsius and can store it for weeks or months as a time. the sand used in base is low grade, not suitable for construction. the company behind the technology is called or nice energy. we use the electric recipes, toaster, heat air, which is circulated through the sand. and then when the air is hold on, the sand is called, the heat is transferred from the s to the sand and then it's source there. when the case is needed, it's released this some battery is connected to

a district teasing metric and heat homes in the area. if, if it keeps this local 25 meters coming full in a world driven by renewables, one study suggests that by 2040 storage solutions like sand batteries will be able to store and supply up to 15 times more energy than today. otherwise, with too much wind and solar power. disproportionate situation in california might be repeated the world over. there is so much solar energy on the grid that electricity is sometimes actually being thrown out because of a renewables are intermittent when the sun, the science for the wind, just in full force. there's lots of electricity being made. the trick is to capture that energy. when it's plentiful and not waste us to channel that energy to people when they need us. whereas governments have agreed to triple renewables by 2030.

and that's why we need large stationary storage solutions. thermal batteries are said to be more suitable in holding large amounts of energy last longer under cheaper compared to lithium ion batteries. they don't need where minerals. so just to recap in the thermal storage system, renewable electricity can be used to keeps up of material. that's especially good at capturing. he's and surrounding us with installation to make a source of joints per most. a number of companies are playing with natural materials for this. we make individual breaks that are half a ton that store each of them stores more energy than the battery pack and adjust the model x. that's john of donald head of rondo a company that makes breaks from kate, but function as heat batteries for industry. like the sun batteries to break store

energy as he's to be use laser as he's. but unlike to son, battery, the technology use for heating. the brakes can also convert the he's back into electricity. the brakes can store energy as a much higher temperature than the sun battery, almost 3 times as high at 1500 degree celsius. and because rondo provides the hottest drummel storage, that's even commercial operation. today, only our technology can re power coal fired power stations at their original turbine efficiency. the brake is used impacts for industrial processes and bundles as a single heat. battery saves more carbon emissions per year than $8500.00 tesla electric vehicles. a report published earlier this year, i sent that electric thermal energy storage solutions could reduce up to 2 percent of energy release of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and up to 14 percent globally

by 2050. and it's not just cheap batteries made of sand and bricks, but brooks to a decent art station. a batteries made by friend miller are filled with crushed trunks and rolled ready connected to serve the needs of a hospital. they have a life span of 30 years. the think rocks have had a lot of potential because they are their natural, they're abundant. you have them as a by product quite often and they have some nice thermal storage properties that, that make them attract. brent miller is one of the older companies doing heat storage. they are driven by harnessing green energy. but their primary drive is to make the process of making cheese less reliance on fossil fuels, especially for the industrial sector. heat generation or heating cooling is over 50 percent. the energy we consume in the world that store and brian miller, chief business officer of the company. in the industrial sector,

the numbers are even higher, goes up to 6070 percent, sometimes in the emissions that they used to generate this theme or sheet. this is a crucial point. if thermal energy storage solutions can help decamp an ice industry, we're more likely to have a healthier promise and we'll go back to it later. for us to, to lay this solar fuels covering 700 headquarters has 10600 q stats and a 252 meter high tower. this area has some of the highest levels of solar radiation in the world. the plant is over 17 hours of thermal storage capacity using milton souls either on the during all the hours of sunshine, we store the energy that is storing salt at $560.00 degrees celsius in a very large tank and boom, done paid more than the solar power is captured through the heat here stats ramirez . these reflects the sun's rays to the receiver know paces at the top of the tower

there. the radiation is absorbed using a st. miss. codes, melton souls, and conversing the energy back into electricity to be used when need is someone went up and we are the director cold storage plan that was online can generate electricity 24 hours a day. this means that you can feed a city like kilometers. i mean, which is all a neighboring city and we have enough capacity to feed the city of kalama, 24 hours a day. but i'm a been think what the rest of the terminal boundaries are especially usefulness to kind of means of fossil fuels. remember how the renewable energy harness defined the sun boundary orange the swimming pool in friends? with why it's important to talk about he's, according to the international renewable energy agency, heating and cooling, make up half of the world's total energy consumption. significantly more than electricity and transportation this he's a mines to

a brand 40 percent of energy related to carbon dioxide emissions in industry. he's is the central trying for, for example. and pastor, only thing for you to preserve as projects like milk is treated with mines. he's usually less than $100.00 degrees celsius to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life. the higher end still making for instance, requires he's a one times and $600.00 degrees celsius. fossil fuels, current t drive, most of this. but thermal batteries are already stepping in instead. in the faster we can deploy wind and solar and put it to this purpose, we can build a future that is lower cost that is not volatile than price and it is 0 carbon. there is a copy as however, to thermal batteries, as we know, newsom, let's look at the sun box refreshed. this one leaves us about 30 percent of its energy and it's not you has capable of returning electricity is electricity. but as

he's, as we've discussed on the bus, we can only be applied to less than 40 percent of industrial needs because of its lower temperature range. it's also worth remembering that suns, the plentiful in this region of finland is of finite resource and govern. signed extraction is driving erosion floating on the caps of coastal defenses, which is why the team and finland are exploring. sounds like materials for the new suns bass, re crushed soaps to a byproduct of a finished company. that makes fireplaces will be used as the storage medium with the brakes. while they come convert the stored energy into both piece and electricity. there is a carbon cost associated with making them, but found a sense to bounce, re cancel, signed the emissions generation and making us, and it's 1st month of use because of the he's of the breaks the company kings they can be used instead of fossil fuels. in 90 percent of industrial processes,

the use of molten souls meanwhile to be used for storage, need a lot of energy to be kept toss. think back to the plant in chile, one of the places on the planet with the highest levels of solar radiation. rocks on the other hand, while they're not capable of storing cheese as high as the brakes and therefore analysis impactful and tackling industrial he's they are plentiful. so in many ways these rocks are or more or less free and have very i would say minimal environmental impacts the whether it's fund brakes, rocks or salt, terminal energy batteries, mike, another step forward in the move away from fossil fuels. we are entering in error when the sustainability officer and the financial officer can love each other. what do you think of thermal proseries? let us know in the comments below. and if you likes this episode, please check out the transforming business playlist. for videos on topics,

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