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"We are laying the foundation." Researchers make game-changing solar-thermal gains with mirror technology: 'A viable pathway' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Solar thermal technology has the potential to provide both long-duration storage and industrial heat, yet it has been largely overlooked in the Australian context. That is about to change.
The Department of Energy is investing $33 million into nine projects, including an effort to use “concentrating solar thermal” tech to produce steam for a brewery.
This is not only a visual record of technological popularization but also an epochal narrative about China's energy transition. Using "energy" as our brush and "source" as our canvas, we sketch out ...
The innovative project to be built on the Eyre Peninsula will make solar power available after the sun sets, but will require ...
AGL snaps up a newly approved concentrated solar thermal project as it considers long duration storage options in first grid to reach 100 pct net renewables.
It wasn’t clear which solar technologies would prove most cost effective when Ivanpah was being built 15 years ago, said Kenneth Gillingham, an economics professor at Yale School of the Environment.
When it begins operations in late October, Andasol 1 will be the first commercial solar power plant to incorporate a thermal storage capacity, enabling it to run for about 7.5 hours when the sun ...
Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) specialist Vast Renewables has completed final prototyping of a “first-of-its-kind” receiver tower that forms the basis of its clean energy solution that ...
Solar thermal technology has the potential to provide both long-duration storage and industrial heat, yet it has been largely overlooked in the Australian context. That is about to change.