Thanks to a new thermal energy storage system, when residents in this small town north of Helsinki need hot water, it comes from a giant tank of super hot sand.

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over ...

In this captivating video, we take you through the entire glass manufacturing process, starting with the key ingredient: sand. Discover how high-quality silica sand is transformed in furnaces at ...

A small Finnish town is about to ditch fossil fuels in its heating network thanks to a sand-filled energy storage tank the size of a house.

Polar Night Energy will build a second pilot plant in southern Finland to test its power-to-heat-to-power sand battery technology. The project aims to demonstrate the system’s ability to ...

The science pros at TKOR demonstrate how to turn sand into glass using intense heat. 2,000 National Guard troops will be sent to L.A. amid clashes over immigration raids A ball thrown from the ...

Glass made from pure silica sand is called fused quartz, and while it’s commercially valuable, especially in situations requiring extreme temperature resistance and transparency over a wide ...