#Tulikivi

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Minneapolis Living Room

Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary enclosed light wood floor living room remodel with a corner fireplace and a stone fireplace

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"A 1-megawatt sand battery that can store up to 100 megawatt hours of thermal energy will be 10 times larger than a prototype already in use.

The new sand battery will eliminate the need for oil-based energy consumption for the entire town of town of Pornainen, Finland.

Sand gets charged with clean electricity and stored for use within a local grid.

Finland is doing sand batteries big. Polar Night Energy already showed off an early commercialized version of a sand battery in Kankaanpää in 2022, but a new sand battery 10 times that size is about to fully rid the town of Pornainen, Finland of its need for oil-based energy.

In cooperation with the local Finnish district heating company Loviisan Lämpö, Polar Night Energy will develop a 1-megawatt sand battery capable of storing up to 100 megawatt hours of thermal energy.

“With the sand battery,” Mikko Paajanen, CEO of Loviisan Lämpö, said in a statement, “we can significantly reduce energy produced by combustion and completely eliminate the use of oil.”

Polar Night Energy introduced the first commercial sand battery in 2022, with local energy utility Vatajankoski. “Its main purpose is to work as a high-power and high-capacity reservoir for excess wind and solar energy,” Markku Ylönen, Polar Nigh Energy’s co-founder and CTO, said in a statement at the time. “The energy is stored as heat, which can be used to heat homes, or to provide hot steam and high temperature process heat to industries that are often fossil-fuel dependent.” ...

Sand—a high-density, low-cost material that the construction industry discards [Note: 6/13/24: Turns out that's not true! See note at the bottom for more info.] —is a solid material that can heat to well above the boiling point of water and can store several times the amount of energy of a water tank. While sand doesn’t store electricity, it stores energy in the form of heat. To mine the heat, cool air blows through pipes, heating up as it passes through the unit. It can then be used to convert water into steam or heat water in an air-to-water heat exchanger. The heat can also be converted back to electricity, albeit with electricity losses, through the use of a turbine.

In Pornainen, Paajanen believes that—just by switching to a sand battery—the town can achieve a nearly 70 percent reduction in emissions from the district heating network and keep about 160 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere annually. In addition to eliminating the usage of oil, they expect to decrease woodchip combustion by about 60 percent.

The sand battery will arrive ready for use, about 42 feet tall and 49 feet wide. The new project’s thermal storage medium is largely comprised of soapstone, a byproduct of Tulikivi’s production of heat-retaining fireplaces. It should take about 13 months to get the new project online, but once it’s up and running, the Pornainen battery will provide thermal energy storage capacity capable of meeting almost one month of summer heat demand and one week of winter heat demand without recharging.

“We want to enable the growth of renewable energy,” Paajanen said. “The sand battery is designed to participate in all Fingrid’s reserve and balancing power markets. It helps to keep the electricity grid balanced as the share of wind and solar energy in the grid increases.”"

-via Popular Mechanics, March 13, 2024

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Note: I've been keeping an eye on sand batteries for a while, and this is really exciting to see. We need alternatives to lithium batteries ASAP, due to the grave human rights abuses and environmental damage caused by lithium mining, and sand batteries look like a really good solution for grid-scale energy storage.

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Note 6/13/24: Unfortunately, turns out there are substantial issues with sand batteries as well, due to sand scarcity. More details from a lovely asker here, sources on sand scarcity being a thing at the links: x, x, x, x, x

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Happy Flameforgers from Blaze and Tulikivi to nyall!!

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Just an ordinary raining day at home #cat #cats #gato #gatos #gatti #gatto #katze #katzen #pioggia #rain #regen #instacat #cataelfie #sleep #sonno #grattini #fuoco #camino #fireplace #tulikivi #feuer (presso Bolzano, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKWMS5BhOXw/?igshid=6yvkttp3b9n3

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#arabiafinland #avolouhos #sukellus #tulikivi tosiaan louhittu raaka-aineet taas arabialle. #Maasälpä #Kvartsi #lasi (paikassa Kaatialan louhos)

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Talonäyttö Kangasalla, tervetuloa ihastelemaan. #evesatalot #valmistalo #talopaketti #avaimetkäteen #kangasala #tulikivi (paikassa Kangasala) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8MIeAgARDo/?igshid=1c3dphypiqny7

[karvoja]

Louhisaaren linnan talousreseptit on mulle kuin Isoäidin reseptikirja muumeille. Siitä löydän ohjeen, kuinka lehmien yskä lähtee jumprulla puuetikkaa ja hevosten köhään auttaa pirunpihka ja tulikivi. Sieltä löytyy hyödyllinen ohje noin 15-vuotiaiden tyttöjen sairasteluun ja varma parannuskeino peräpukamiin. Löytyypä myös montako ankkuria hyvää lähdevettä käytetään maukkaan rusinaveden valmistukseen (yksi ankkuri, eli 36 pontta).

Jäädessään eläkkeelle eräs kollegani jätti minulle perinnöksi paperilapun, jolle oli kirjoitettu Sakari Pälsin kirjasta Bosna Ponosna kopioitu "isä Josefin vatsalääkereseptin" ohje: "italialaisia pähkinöitä, sokeria, alkoholia, kaksi viikkoa auringossa, ja liika makeus poistettakoon alkoholia lisäämällä", todeten, että saattaisin joskus tarvita sitä. Ohjeen suurpiirteisyys ja näennäinen epämääräisyys riemastutti ja hämmästytti minua. Poistettiinko esimerkiksi liika makeus lisäämällä alkoholia pulloon vai oliko alkoholi kenties tarkoitus nauttia erikseen, itse lääkkeen ottamisen jälkeen? Ehkä tämä pintapuolinen tulkinnanvaraisuus oli tarkoituksellista. Lukiessani oheisen, Louhisaaren linnasta periytyvän talousreseptikokoelman lääkintäohjeita en olla ajattelematta isä Josefin vatsalääkereseptiä. Molempia leimaa sama käytännön kokemuksen synnyttämän varmuuden ja vaistonvaraisen sormituntuman yhdistelmä, yrityksen ja erehdyksen mukanaan tuoma auktoriteetti, johon kullakin on silti viime kädessä oikeus uskoa tai olla uskomatta.

Louhisaaren linnan talousreseptit (n. 1770-1850). Jouni Kuurne. SKS, 2008.

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Shungit y Tulikivi, un tándem perfecto

Shungit y Tulikivi, un tándem perfecto

Shungit y Tulikivi son dos minerales, que tienen en común la misma procedencia, y siendo muy distintos son a la vez totalmente complementarios. Ambos proceden de la zona de Karelia, en Rusia. De la shungit se ha hablado mucho por sus amplias propiedades y sobre todo por la existencia en su composición (principalmente carbono), de fullerenos, que son moléculas de 60 átomos de carbono, y a los…

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#fire #tulikivi

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Инженер-проектировщик бассейнов

Интерком Компания «INTERCOM» c 1998 года специализируется на проектировании и строительстве бассейнов, саун, хаммамов, SPA&Wellness комплексов и уникальных финских каминов Tulikivi. Мы работаем в премиальном сегменте рынка, реализуем амбициозные проекты наших клиентов, которые ценят комфорт и эстетику. Ты системный и любишь, когда все структурировано? Хочешь работать на результат, а не просто…

[evesa-talot]

Talonäyttö alkamassa Kangasalla, tervetuloa ihastelemaan. #evesatalot #valmistalo #talopaketti #tulikivi #kangasala https://www.instagram.com/p/B8MIJrlAHaA/?igshid=1dyu3pk0m7hdx

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#4maart #winterdag #gezelligewarmte #tulikivi #hansvanopdorp #milieubewust #hoogrendement #fijnezaterdag