Electrified Thermal Solutions' e-bricks could be key to decarbonizing heavy industry
Summary
Though instead of serving as a construction material, Electrified Thermal Solutions, which is participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Startup Battlefield, hopes theyll be the building block of newly decarbonized industries.Today, much of heavy industry relies on fossil fuels not just for power, but heat. Getting the sort of temperatures required to make steel or cement or a range of other things is either hard or expensive with todays electric heating technology. Unfortunately, developing enough green hydrogen capacity to drive heavy industry would also be eye-waveringly expensive.Which is why startups like ETS are looking at alternatives called thermal batteries. We dont even tweak the recipes a ton to get the properties we need.The batteries are heated by running electricity through them just like how your toaster works, but a lot hotter, Stack said. The thermal mass of the bricks and the insulated container theyre stacked in allows them to hold their heat for hours or even days.