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Why thermal batteries could replace lithium-ion batteries for energy ...

Thermal batteries could transform renewable energy storage and provide a cheaper and scalable alternative to lithium-ion technology.

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The Switch: Using heat storage as an alternative to lithium batteries...

Solar and wind energy now provide cheaper electricity than fossil fuels, but their intermittent nature means storing that power is a huge challenge. CEO John O’Donnell of Rondo Energy told Reuters ...

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Innovations for a new era of energy storage | DW News

To store the increasing amount of clean energy coming from renewables, we need batteries. Without them, there’s a risk of stalling the transition away from fossil fuels. Stationary thermal batterie...

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NBC: These bricks can hold as much energy as a Tesla

Once a brick gets hot enough, it effectively becomes a battery to store energy. That’s the low-tech approach by California-based Rondo Energy toward eliminating 15% of global emissions. By using cl...

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TED Talk: Can a Simple Brick Be the Next Great Battery? John O'Donnel...

The world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use. Energy entrepreneur...

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This energy storage technology is HOT STUFF!

Rondo Energy just secured $60 million of funding from some of the world's shrewdest investors. So, can they now achieve their goal of a 90GWh per annum production facility for their simple heat bat...

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Simple, Unstoppable: Rondo Energy is Solving Industrial Heat with Bricks

Rondo Energy is building a renewable energy battery using bricks and toaster wire. But it’s not for your home—it’s for the factories that run the world. Industrial heat drives 10% of global carbon ...

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Rondo Energy’s complicated path to building heat batteries

John O’Donnell of Rondo Energy explains why stacking bricks for heat batteries is so hard.

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Can Hot Bricks Save the World? (The Solar Era, Part 2) | Pushkin Podcast

This is the second of three episodes about the solar-power revolution. Last week, we talked about how solar power got so cheap. This week, we’re talking with someone who is building giant plants ar...

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Watt It Takes: Emily Kirsh Rondo Energy Co-Founder and CIO John O'Don...

John O’Donnell is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Rondo Energy. The Rondo Heat Battery powers industrial processes with renewable electricity, cutting energy costs and eliminating emiss...

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USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 51: Rondo Energy CEO John O'Donnell

In episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast’s series on energy storage, John O’Donnell, CEO of Rondo Energy, answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about the thermal energy storage te...

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Latitude Media's Carbon Copy Podcast: The rise of heat batteries

In this episode, we talk with John O’Donnell about the different methods for decarbonizing industrial heat, the use cases for heat batteries, and lessons learned from his days in solar thermal.

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Cleantech leadership: who is blending the cocktail?

The European Union (EU), spurred by Spain and Portugal, stands poised to lead in clean technologies. Years ago, Europe’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050 marked a visionary call to action...

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Clean Energy 101: Thermal Batteries

The why, what, and how of this technology that's helping eliminate fossil fuel combustion in industrial heating.

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Thermal Batteries: Opportunities to Accelerate Decarbonization of Ind...

Thermal batteries present the opportunity to reduce nearly all greenhouse gas emissions from industrial heat, a sizable portion of overall U.S. emissions, by drawing from increasingly abundant rene...

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Thermal Batteries: Decarbonizing U.S. Industry While Supporting A Hig...

While fossil fuels are currently used to generate almost all the heat needed in industrial processes, technological solutions like industrial thermal batteries can provide this heat while powered b...

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Tesla Master Plan Part 3

Today, we are publishing Master Plan Part 3, which outlines a proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and s...

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CATALYSING THE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ELECTROTHERMAL ENERGY STORAGE |...

To ensure that global temperature rise stays well below 2°C, as countries pledged to in the Paris Agreement, reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by mid-century is critical. Industrial ...

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