"1414 Degrees is a patented thermal energy storage system (TESS), and for the past decade, the company invested more than $3 million, with the assistance from the Federal Government's AusIndustry program, to create a product that is highly efficient, safe, scalable, with low emissions, and unlike any other energy storage product.
The TESS uses abundantly available elemental silicon for storing and retrieving electrical energy enabling low cost storage of energy and a stable supply back to the grid, which is a critical requirement as renewable generation increases globally."
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http://www.insidewaste.com.au/gener...fficiency-grid-stability#sthash.0gVk7jvS.dpuf
The company has recently announced its creation of a full prototype that is ready for commercialisation, and are currently in talks with some large companies interested in harnessing the significant benefits of the solution.
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http://www.insidewaste.com.au/gener...fficiency-grid-stability#sthash.0gVk7jvS.dpuf
“The know-how is crucial. Anyone can go and buy some silicon, it’s cheap, it’s $2000 a tonne,” he said. “A single tonne of that (a 50sq cm block), just to melt that, to hold it at melting temperature, what they call the latent heat, in other words the energy of melting, is the equivalent of taking a tonne of water and raising it 200m in the air."
“One block like that will store enough energy to keep 28 houses operating for a day."
http://reneweconomy.com.au/sa-made-silicon-energy-storage-system-ready-close-grid-gap-23607/
http://1414degrees.com.au/
