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In tower CSP, a solar field of mirrors or heliostats concentrate and reflect sunlight to a tower receiver IMAGE@Cerro Dominador Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Partners, has just bid the 450 MW Likana tower CSP plant it procured from SolarReserve several years ago at under 4 cents/kWh. Was the record low bid enabled by …
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IMAGE@NASA The out-of-this-world engineering challenges of manufacturing on the Moon present an opportunity for Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) – the heat-based form of solar energy for solar thermochemistry To build anything on the moon, we will have to literally start from the ground up and make the material to build everything from the regolith itself; …
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In tower CSP, a solar field of mirrors or heliostats concentrate and reflect sunlight to a tower receiver Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Partners, has just bid the 450 MW Likana tower CSP plant it procured from SolarReserve several years ago at under 4 cents/kWh. Was the record low bid enabled by cost reduction …
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The Hybrid Solar Receiver Hydrogen Combustor for mining processes at 800°C Working closely with companies such as Alcoa, BHP, GFG and OZ Minerals, the CET team has demonstrated at lab scale that their combination fuel combustor/solar reactor is fuel-agnostic: it can operate 100% on solar radiation or 100% by fuel combustion, or on any combination …
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Turbochargers were first used to amplify fossil fuel efficiency. Now they could turbocharge solar thermal energy for 100% renewable industrial heat A university research team has developed a unique way to provide direct hot air for industrial drying processes using renewable energy, by pairing solar thermal collectors – with an auto industry turbocharger. “Thanks to …
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Turbochargers were first used to amplify fossil fuel efficiency. Now they could turbocharge solar thermal energy for 100% renewable industrial heat A university research team has developed a unique way to provide direct hot air for industrial drying processes using renewable energy, by pairing solar thermal collectors – with an auto industry turbocharger. “Thanks to …
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Bauxite particles IMAGE@Reiner Buck at DLR High temperature CSP with very long duration storage in Bauxite particles can top off the 100% renewable grid says Sandia solar thermal research lead Cliff Ho An innovative new Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology has been shown by a US solar research lab to enable very high temperature operation …
Gen3 CSP Plant Liquid Pathway schematic; Sodium Receiver, new molten salts mix MgCl2-KCl-NaCl as HTF and thermal energy storage IMAGE@NREL Innovating new energy technologies is more akin to making a movie with a cast and crew of thousands than the stereotype of the one lone inventor in a garage coming up with the whole thing …
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Beam Down Thermal Storage Test at Masdar Institute IMAGE@Nicolas Calvet Normally, power tower CSP heats molten salts by aiming concentrated sunlight up to a receiver on a tower that has molten salts flowing through pipes in the receiver to be heated and sent down the tower to store the sun’s energy as heat in a …
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DLR concentrated solar thermal test site at Jülich IMAGE@DLR The ETH spin-off Synhelion is working on commercializing its very high-temperature solar thermochemical fuels (like jet fuel and hydrogen) and has already formed partnerships with several larger firms making cement or aviation fuel to advance step by step towards its goal of 100% carbon neutral fuels …
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