Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only concentrated solar power. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun. In a study appearing today in Solar Energy Journal, the engineers lay out …
100-Gigawatt-Hour Crushed-Rock Heat Storage for Concentrated Solar Power and Nuclear
A very large-scale long duration energy storage (LDES) idea from MIT envisages a 1 kilometer-long, 60 meter-wide lidded central storage container of rocks sunk 20 meters down into the ground – about the size of 10 football fields if they were laid end to end. The idea is that it could store energy from up …
MIT develops tech to store solar power, wind energy
MIT researchers have invented a novel method to store renewable energy, such as solar energy and wind power, and deliver that energy back into an electric grid on demand. MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy …
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