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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

Hot brick battery offers renewable breakthrough for world’s hardest-to-decarbonise industry

MIT-spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions describes its firebrick as ‘the building block of industrial decarbonisation’ - (Electrified Thermal Solutions)

Scientists have figured out how to electrify industrial heat for the first time by pioneering a new type of hot brick battery.

The Joule Hive Thermal Battery, or ‘e-Brick’, was developed by a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who set out to introduce renewable energy to the world’s hardest-to-decarbonise industry.

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