I Tried a Sand Battery - Here is Why It is a Game-Changer

I Tried a Sand Battery - Here is Why It is Game-Changer

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In this video, we're going to make a working sand battery!
This sand battery is a game-changer because it is a cheap, environmentally-friendly energy storage solution that can be used to store energy from renewable sources like solar and wind.
By using sand instead of heavy metals or expensive batteries, this sand battery is a great way to store energy from renewable sources. Not to mention, it's also really easy to make! If you're interested in learning more about this sand battery or any other green energy storage solutions, be sure to check out our channel regularly.

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[jacobwolf]

This is certainly an interesting thought. I work at a sand mine where I dry sand with a giant rotating oven and send it to a silo; and a month after filling it, it still comes out of the silos very hot. I had not thought about how it held heat but it certainly is giving me a few creative ideas.

[pzwarich]

Please do build a larger sand battery!

[avon]

It might be a good use for old hot water heaters. They already have a high temperature insulated container. When they become too corroded for pressurized water, just turn them into a sand battery! (Please do this one next)

[davidsnk]

One of my favorite topics!
I wanted to build a prototype where I would put some sand in a (heat-insulating type)cement box, and have the heat transfer with (compressor)parts salvaged from AC. The whole thing(heating included) would run on some solar panels, so long term energy storage testing could have been made possible..

[kaib]

nice idea. Would love to see the bigger sand storage!

[schetenwapper]

5 hours for 5kg is not bad at all. It would be a pretty good system to put a sand battery in a basement of a home and store all the heat in there.

[MegaCyrik]

Use a resistor in the center. Like a water heating element. Don't go above/near the melting point of the metal the wires are made of

[DexterityRo]

Actually, I am developing a sand battery, Storage capacity: ~175 kWh total, ~160 kWh usable, Heating autonomy: 34 days at 42 kWh/day consumption, Recharging time: ~10-12 hours at 1518 kW power. The only downsize is the weight of it - 2360–2400 kg.

[Kleidos]

definitely would love to see you build a bigger one brother!

[colleenforrest]

Maybe we should be putting sand batteries underground for better insulation?

Another possibility is that we can store cold as well as heat. The idea is to create a temperature differential. It doesn't really matter if your thermal storage is hotter or colder than the ambient. So we could store heat in the day to power the night, and cold in the night to power the day. With refinements, there might be a way to use the heat differential between the heat store and the cold store to get a higher differential that's sustainable over the time it would take secondary system to charge its hot and cold sides. Or maybe you would need to rotate 3 or 4 systems depending on the recharge time. That's something for the research to figure out.

That's a simplification as temperatures are more complicated than that, but it's the general idea. It's going to be fun watching the tech develop in this area.

[walkersunited]

I'm planning on building a 450 kg sand battery. Planning to have it done for next winter.

[dominicgoodwin]

Just because it’s called a “sand battery”, you don’t need to use sand. If you use stone chips, . (Like a big Finnish sauna heater.) You can force hot air through it over a heating element to heat it quickly, and later circulate air through it and through a heat exchanger to extract the heat. Then ideally store it all in a giant vacuum flask.

[fazalkhan]

ASALAM O ALAIKUM wel hi there hey brother make a huge sand battery that we can benfit from it .. and if you make large size of water heater and use the barrel instead of drum will that help see you in a next video IN SHA ALLAH

[YamabushiSpirit]

Dude I love alternative energy storage ideas. I have never heard of a sand battery like this before, it is very intriguing. Please make a bigger one, and try to actually use it to heat your home!

[AJ]

This channel will blow up. Hell, I even watched the sponsor video. That was interesting!

[chuck]

I would like to see you use a sand battery to heat a greenhouse at night. Heat the sand with a 12-volt electric hot water heater heat element that gets it's electricity directly from a solar panel. It would never actually be switched off. When the sun is shining the electricity from the solar panel heats the sand. At night when the sun is not shining the hot sand gives up the heat to the greenhouse. Can you do that?

[azharmukhi]

We can also use sand battery for making electricity by using a steam turbine with a liquid with low boiling temperature.( we have to choose this liquid according to the heat capacity of sand battery). By the way, love your this type of videos.

[ccumma]

Would it make sense to use fresnel lens with solar trucker to heat the sand? Thank you

[CREVchannel]

You should try using a high power electric heating element that heats the sand from inside. Great video!