does in the history of selm that's it for the moment coming up next often to break the the business takes a look at the new book imagery and out some of the batteries are helping with the transition away from fossil fuels. i'm going to expand it in berlin. it's even about 25 minutes from now. the dream of revolution dictates estimate as the was supposed to have. that changed my life. the people hoped for a sara society. i imagined we would change the world. tens of thousands of messages from all over the world wanted to help reconstruct the country. this mission became victory. it was simply a spirit of optimism where we encouraged each other, and so many things were suddenly imaginable. their auditors in mid to end

making a dream of revolution, dots july 20th d, w. the . this is the world's 1st fund sponsoring it's filled with 100 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 lots of sen, furthering the world. the sun boundary 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 se materials. harnessing energy as he's on this episode of transforming business based on harris, defend the point of the sun storage. this is the size of what would be the world's

biggest, some battery i'd like to talk about. it's about the they made us, it'll be toner, then it's neighboring wood chips burning pond. here in the small town of por 9 and in southern finland, we are outside to replace here about 60 percent of our district seating photos for double chips. and as on further is able to do that. that's me co put down in kind of a finished 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. 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 source on the inside. that's about the same ways at the blue found 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 around 500 to 600 degrees celsius and can store it for weeks or months as a time. the sound used in base is low grade, not suitable for construction. the company behind the technology is called or nice energy. we use electric progresses, 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 swimming for of the and 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, this reported 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 it. renewables are intermittent when the sun is science with 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 on 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 into thermal storage system, renewable electricity can be used a key. so for material that's especially good, a 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 o'donnell, head of rondo a company that makes bricks 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 this on battery, almost 3 times as high at one times and 500 degrees 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 bondo cents 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 related greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and up to 14 percent globally by 2050. and it's not just cheap batteries made of sand breaks,

but brooks to the smart station, a batteries made by friend miller, ourselves which cross trucks and are already connected to serve the needs of a hospital. they have a life span of 30 years. the us 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 dental 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 puddings 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 chief. this is a crucial point. if thermal energy storage solutions can help the carbon ice industry, we're more likely to have a healthier promise and we'll go back to a laser for us to, to lay this solar fuels covering 700 headquarters has 10600 hugo stats and a 252 major 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 molten souls. the, during all the hours of sunshine, we stole thermal 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, teasing a st. miss codes, melton souls,

and conversing the energy back into electricity to be used when need as 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 batteries are, especially usefulness to kind of means of fossil fuels. remember, have the renewable energy harness to find the sound boundary orange the swimming 2 infinitives. but 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 keys

is the central trying for, for example, and past drawing thing for you to preserve as projects like milk is treated with mines, he's usually less than 100 degrees celsius to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life at the higher end. still making for instance, requires he's one times and 600 degrees celsius. fossil fuels, current t drive, most of this. but thermal boundaries are already stepping in instead. and 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 in price, and that is 0 carbon. there is a copy as however, to thermal batteries, as we know, newsom, let's look at the sun bass refreshed. this one leaves us by 30 percent of its energy and it's not you have 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 funds the plentiful in this region of finland is a 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 finish company that makes fireplaces will be used as the storage medium with the brakes. while they come, convert the storage energy into both piece and electricity. there is a carbon cost associated with making them but found to assess the fast, re cancel, sign the emissions generations 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 nose has 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 impact 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 batteries? let us know in the comments below. and if you likes this episode, please check out the transforming business playlist. for videos on topics, just like this one, the

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