{"id":185766,"date":"2024-03-22T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/startup-is-building-a-giant-sand-battery-in-finland"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:28:07","slug":"startup-is-building-a-giant-sand-battery-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/startup-is-building-a-giant-sand-battery-in-finland","title":{"rendered":"Startup is building a giant sand battery in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZ9TyJ1bQ3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture:<\/strong> Sand batteries might not be as efficient for generating electricity as they are for heating, but they could still have a huge impact on climate emissions \u2014 about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.districtenergy.org\/blogs\/district-energy\/2022\/09\/15\/350-million-building-units-connected-to-district-e\">9%<\/a> of the heat needed for buildings and industry comes from district heating systems, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/energy-system\/buildings\/district-heating\">90%<\/a> of those rely on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>We could then supplement the sand batteries with another alternative form of storage, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/iron-flow-batteries\">flow batteries<\/a>, to generate electricity from renewables year-round \u2014 completing the transition to a clean energy future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big picture: Sand batteries might not be as efficient for generating electricity as they are for heating, but they could still have a huge impact on climate emissions \u2014 about 9% of the heat needed for buildings and industry comes from district heating systems, and 90% of those rely on fossil fuels. We could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}