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How a Danish Factory Uses Thermal Batteries to Cut Steam Costs
Episode 9 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into a specific energy innovation: how a Danish industrial bakery replaced its natural gas steam boiler with a grid-connected thermal battery made of crushed stone. Lucas and Luna walk through the numbers—a 4-megawatt resistance heater, 600-degree-Celsius stone storage, payback in under four years—and what this means for factories that need high-temperature heat but want to ditch fossil fuels. They also touch on the broader landscape of industrial electrification, including why steam alone accounts for roughly 30 percent of manufacturing energy use…
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