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Electrically conductive bricks can replace fossil fuels in industrial processes
A Medford company has built a brick that can be heated up to 1,800 degrees Celsius from renewable sources of energy. That concentrated heat can then be used for industrial processes, such as making steel or cement, cutting out the need for coal.
These bricks seek to address one of the biggest challenges facing the clean-energy transition: finding a way to convert electricity from renewable sources, including solar and wind, into high-temperature heat that can be used for industrial processes, such as making cement or melting iron ore to create steel. Joey Kabel (left), CTO, and Daniel Stack, CEO, cofounders of Electrified Thermal Solutions in Medford, stood next to the company’s elevator-size pilot system, which contains electrically charged bricks that generate and store heat. “If you are running an industrial plant where you’re making cement or steel or glass, or ceramics or chemicals or even food or beverage products, you burn a lot of fossil fuels,” said Daniel Stack, chief executive of Electrified Thermal Solutions.
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