Botswana is Now Looking for Bids to Build 200 MW of CSP

Bokpoort in neighboring South Africa has been over-performing projections since 2016, with many round-the-clock records broken IMAGE@ACWA Power Under a new integrated resource plan published by the government in December 2020, Botswana plans to build 200 MW of CSP capacity by 2026. The procurement process will start this year, it said. The plan, which received …

Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes

IMAGE@Hiroyuki Kimura, IHI Corporation Heat & Fluid Dynamics Research Department Two teams of solar researchers have developed a novel solar reactor and thermochemical process for making solar hydrogen that can generate in addition carbon black and graphite as well as carbon nanotubes. 

Working over a six-year period, the teams first developed the specific solar reactor, …