[Antora in Energies Media] Antora Energy just fired up the world’s largest thermal battery, storing wind power as white-hot carbon blocks to heat a South Dakota ethanol plant

More than 200 carbon blocks — each glowing at temperatures that dwarf a blast furnace — are now sitting on an empty lot beside a South Dakota ethanol plant, storing wind energy that would otherwise go to waste. Antora Energy says the system, a 5-gigawatt-hour thermal battery, is the largest of its kind in the world.

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