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Re:Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland by teruakohatu on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:28PM (#32007671)
> What's nice about it, and maybe hard to quantify, is how this limits air pollution in the city.

It should be simple to quantify. If gas is used for heating I can't think there would be any improvement.

Local heating with a heatpump would be an improvement if the power supply mix is greener than gas only, maybe worse if the power is all coal.

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