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Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town (newatlas.com)
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[โ€“] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're using heat exchangers to add it to the municipal heating loop. No electricity involved on that side.

[โ€“] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I saw that, but they said it could be converted to heat with a loss.