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Researcher discovers promising new method for dealing with summer heat: 'It's a great solution to a major problem'
A breakthrough from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands could help us to store sweltering heat from July for use during frigid winter months.
If testing continues to go well, the researchers feel the innovative “heat battery” could provide warmth and hot water to single homes, and even entire blocks, cheaply and efficiently using renewable energy and sustainable ingredients. It works by using stabilized salt hydrates — not the kind of sodium provided by Morton — to store and release heat in a chemistry process that includes common water. The unit directs traffic — the flow of hot and cold, humid and dry air — so the salt chemistry inside stores and releases heat energy as needed.
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