TED Talk: Heat Batteries are on Fire

A new kind of fire, to be sure.

Some good podcasts to get a deeper dive on this from Dave Roberts.

Why Electrifying Industrial Heat is Such a Big Deal

A Super Battery for Decarbonizing Industry

2 thoughts on “TED Talk: Heat Batteries are on Fire”


  1. This has been used in UK and other places for domestic heating for many years, called storage heaters. I believe the inventor is an Irishman. Losing favour now, as less control than central heating.


  2. I’ve got a little ceramic space heater running under my desk right now … been running them for years. One in the bathroom. Takes just enough of the edge off to keep the gas-guzzling furnace set to 62*

    I don’t think I paid more than twenty bucks for them at the Depot …

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