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Thermal blocks developed at Newcastle Uni could convert coal-fired power stations to run fossil-fuel free – ABC News
They’re stackable like Lego and could solve a decades old problem of how to dispatch solar energy gathered during the day via the electricity grid at night.
It looks like a brick or paver, but a metal alloy developed by Australian scientists could hold the key to efficiently storing renewable power as thermal energy.
Key points:
- Demonstration on a 55-megawatt coal-fired plant in Europe to take place in 2023
- Thermal qualities of the alloy likened to the way a choc-chip muffin behaves after being microwaved
- Peak engineering body says if demonstration is successful it could solve a worldwide problem integrating renewables on t…
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