Cars That Think
JANUARY 20, 2024
The European Union plans to begin charging shippers for carbon emissions this year. Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. The reactors would be small, modular units.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2012
The external neutrons are provided by the interaction of accelerated charged particles with matter. The type of spallation target: lead, lead– bismuth, tungsten, molten salt, etc. The nature of the cooling agent: gas, molten metal, molten salt. or liquid (fluorides, chlorides).
Setec Powerr
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Technologies include energy storage with molten salt and liquid air or cryogenic storage. Molten salt has emerged as commercially viable with concentrated solar power but this and other heat storage options may be limited by the need for large underground storage caverns.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2022
An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. But this particular salt, it happens, is very good at preventing that malfunction.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Professor Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company, Ambri (initially Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, which comprise layers of molten material which automatically separate due to their differing densities. Earlier post.). —Wang et al. —Donald Sadoway.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
Companies have looked into pumped hydroelectric systems that generate electricity from water flowing out of large artificial reservoirs, underground caverns that store hydrogen fuel electrolyzed from water, elevators that lift blocks of concrete and harvest their potential energy as they fall.
Cars That Think
JULY 15, 2023
Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center What sets CFS’s technology apart is its use of high-temperature superconducting tape, which is layered and stacked to create extremely strong electromagnets that will shape and confine the unruly plasma and keep the bulk of the charged particles away from the tokamak’s walls.
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