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Store Wind and Solar Energy with "Sun in a Box"

MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy back into an electric grid on demand. The system may b... read more

Sun in a box would store renewable energy for the grid

Engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy ... people have started calling our concept, is 'sun in a ... read more

Putting the “Sun in a Box” for Energy Storage

Now, a U.S.-based engineering team has come up with a counterintuitive solution: store the harvested solar or wind energy as heat in white-hot ... Nonetheless, the team’s modeling suggests that its “s... read more

MIT’s ‘Sun in a Box’ Could Solve Our Energy Storage Woes

We prefer “sun in a box.” According to the researchers, this sun in a box could store excess electricity ... in combination with solar panels or wind farms. That’s a lot of homes that can run on clean ... read more

'Sun in a box' could power an entire CITY using renewable energy stored in vast vats of molten silicon

A radical new 'city battery' is capable of storing excess heat in molten silicon. MIT researchers say their 'sun in a box' could store excess energy from solar and wind power, and deliver it back into ... read more

Sun in a box: Excess renewable energy can now be stored

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a conceptual design to store any renewable energy that can be supplied to the electric grid to light up homes. The concept ... read more

"Sun In A Box" Could Help Renewables Deliver Energy On Demand

The tech is amazing but it depends on the Sun and the wind, so researchers are focusing on ways to store the energy produced and deliver it to ... This “Sun in a box” approach is expected to be cheape... read more

Scientists Envision Replacing Batteries with a Molten Silicon 'Sun in a Box'

One of the biggest practical problems keeping renewable energy from overtaking fossil fuels is the question of how to store it ... the storage problem.” The sun in a box works through what's called "c... read more

MIT's conceptual "sun-in-a-box" energy storage system plugs into molten silicon

Researchers at MIT have outlined a new design they call a "sun in a box," which stores ... Ideally, that energy would come from renewable sources like wind or solar, but it could effectively ... read more

MIT develops tech to store solar power, wind energy

MIT researchers have invented a novel method to store renewable energy, such as solar energy and wind power, and deliver that energy ... could incorporate such a high-temperature pump. “Sun in a box” ... read more

Renewable energy device developed for the grid using pump with record heat tolerance

MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy ... not just when the sun is up or the wind is high, but around the clock. The design stores heat generated b... read more

'Sun in a box' system to store renewable energy

MIT scientists have designed a system that could store ... solar and wind power, and deliver it back into an electric grid on demand. The system, described in the journal Energy and Environmental Scie... read more