{"id":218867,"date":"2025-07-27T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-mit-spinouts-electric-bricks-store-heat-hotter-than-lava"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:11:19","slug":"this-mit-spinouts-electric-bricks-store-heat-hotter-than-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/this-mit-spinouts-electric-bricks-store-heat-hotter-than-lava","title":{"rendered":"This MIT spinout\u2019s electric bricks store heat hotter than lava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-mit-spinouts-electric-bricks-store-heat-hotter-than-lava.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT spinout <a href=\"https:\/\/electrifiedthermal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electrified Thermal Solutions<\/a> has inked a deal with HWI, a member of Calderys and one of the biggest refractory suppliers in the US, to make electrically conductive firebricks \u2013 electric bricks, or E-bricks \u2013 that store and deliver extreme heat using renewable electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative partnership is all about scaling up Electrified Thermal\u2019s Joule Hive Thermal Battery, which conducts clean power and stores it as heat up to a scorching 1,800C (3,275F). That\u2019s hot enough to drive even the most energy-hungry industrial processes like steelmaking, glass, or cement production.<\/p>\n<p>The E-bricks enable factories to ditch fossil fuels and run on renewables without sacrificing performance or reliability, and at a lower cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has inked a deal with HWI, a member of Calderys and one of the biggest refractory suppliers in the US, to make electrically conductive firebricks \u2013 electric bricks, or E-bricks \u2013 that store and deliver extreme heat using renewable electricity. The innovative partnership is all about scaling up Electrified Thermal\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218867","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}