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Google’s latest lineup of Nest Cam devices has arrived, but there are no new battery models in the 2K refresh. Why? Google has an understandable answer. The new lineup of Nest Cam devices includes a ...

If you have a dark spot in your home that doesn’t get as much light as you like, boy do I have a solution for you: a compact, battery-operated, motion-sensing light that requires very little setup and ...

Engineers create a sand battery that they say will slash the carbon emissions in Pornainen, Finland, by 70% — it uses renewables to heat the sand to almost 850 degrees Fahrenheit. When you purchase ...

A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of crushed ...

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's ...

Copper has secured $28 million in funding for its battery-powered kitchen stoves. The Berkeley, Calif.-based startup makes an induction range with a 5-kilowatt-hour battery that plugs into a standard ...

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This video explores sand battery technology, which recently launched in Finland, as a significant advancement in thermal energy storage. It discusses the mechanics of how sand batteries function and ...

It doesn’t look like much, but Finland recently flipped the switch on the world’s largest sand-based battery. Yes, sand. A sand battery is a type of thermal energy storage system that uses sand or ...