Touch the back of a laptop and it often feels warm. This is because part of the energy used for computation and communication ...

A groundbreaking review by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Imperial College London, and other leading institutions demonstrates that thermo-mechanical energy storage (TMES) ...

Simply put, heat pumps are designed to take thermal energy (heat) from one medium and give it to another. Your fridge, for instance, takes heat from the air inside and pumps it outside, cooling the ...

A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared ...

The Kraftblock team at the site of one of their firm's thermal batteries, installed at a ceramics plant. The battery is the white container connected to the building via the chrome pipes. About half ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

With three buildings to house mechanical equipment and four thermal energy storage (TES) tanks, this all-electric thermal plant centralizes delivery of renewable energy to Google’s adjacent offices.

An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the ...

As wind and solar renewable projects across the state hit hurdles, environmental advocates say investing in an underground network of heat pumps is the Big Apple’s best bet at reducing its greenhouse ...