🔥 Molten salt once looked promising for industrial heat storage, but its high cost, corrosion risks & complex handling make it less viable long-term. The future may lie in simpler, more scalable solutions. ⚙️🌍
Read more 👉 https://cleantechnica.com/2025/09/28/why-molten-salt-wont-be-the-future-of-industrial-heat-storage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#CleanEnergy #HeatStorage #MoltenSalt #EnergyTech

Funny how advocacy for low-tech solutions reveals a modern and accurate understandment of the world.

Tecnocracy, you can retire. 😉

(Here's the link to the actual articke, I have to finish reading it, but up to now it looks neat)
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae274/7710221?login=false

@JohannesIEckert

#LowTech #EnergyTransition #EnergyStorage #HeatStorage #GreenHydrogen #GridStorage #RenewableEnergy

Yesterday #Fortum, the local heating utility in Espoo, Finland, has shut down their last remaining coal plant at #Suomenoja.
One year ahead of schedule.

#DistrictHeating in #Espoo is decarbonising quickly and increasingly relies on excess heat recovery, #HeatPumps, several hundred megawatt electric boilers and #heatStorage.

#EspooCleanHeat #SectorCoupling
https://www.fortum.com/media/2024/03/fortum-end-use-coal-finnish-district-heat-production-ahead-schedule

@InfoMgmtExec Baseload paradigm is from the past when systems were simpler and coal and nuclear were not flexible enough to handle changes in demand.

But the problem of continuously matching supply and demand has not gone away. We have means like #RE, #HVDC, #batteries, #heatstorage, "smart" #dynamicConsumption etc, but will take many years for those to fully match up with needs.