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Scientists develop method to store ‘substantial amount of energy’ in red bricks – The Irish News
They say that their method allows a brick wall to be recharged hundreds of thousands of times within an hour.
Scientists have found a way to store energy in the red bricks that are used to build houses.
Researchers led by Washington University in St Louis, in Missouri, US, have developed a method that can turn the cheap and widely available building material into “smart bricks” that can store energy like a battery.
Although the research is still in the proof-of-concept stage, the scientists claim that walls made of these bricks “could store a substantial amount of energy” and can “be recharged hundred…
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