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China Built A Supercritical CO₂ Generator. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Last.
China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation, and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough. The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat … [continued]
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Energy Storage Exists, & It’s Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
With an assist from energy storage, concentrating solar power gets a reboot for commercial and industrial applications.
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Giant Blocks Of Steaming Hot Carbon Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
The US energy storage startup Antora is manufacturing thermophotovoltaic “heat batteries” that store renewable energy for transfer into electricity or heat, capable of powering industrial operations.
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Why Molten Salt Won’t Be the Future of Industrial Heat Storage
Molten salt has long been positioned as the workhorse of high temperature thermal storage. Its story began with research in the 1980s and early deployment in Spanish parabolic trough plants in the 2000s. The technology was appealing on paper. A mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate has a high heat … [continued]
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Ivanpah & Heliogen: Lessons from Concentrated Solar’s Decline
Ivanpah was supposed to be the future. When it opened in the Mojave Desert in 2014, with its three towers glowing like beacons and almost 400 MW of capacity, it was the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. It had the backing of Google, NRG Energy, BrightSource, and … [continued]
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