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Are we about to witness the next wave of solar energy production and storage? Combining the latest Thermophotovoltaic tech from MIT and the thermal storage efficiency of modern sand batteries could we make energy 100x cheaper without major infrastructure upgrades? In the era of lofty startup promises I wanted to find out more!

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00:00 How to Turn Heat into Electricity
00:38 A New Approach To Thermal Batteries
1:56 How Does a Thermophotovoltaic cell work?
3:53 Ad read
4:59 Storing Energy as Heat The Sand Battery
6:20 Downsides of Sand Batteries
7:16 How Thermophotovoltaics Might Revolutionise Thermal Storage
9:04 Introducing Antora Energy
11:34 The future of Thermophotovoltaic cells


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