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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Neutron Spectrum Generator, $75,000 Rapid Field Chemical Detection and Determination of Actinides, $42,500 Switchable Solvent Water Extraction for Material Processing and Isolation, $150,000 Trevi Systems Inc.,

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Compact tokamaks like CFS’s could reverse the developmental trends that have dominated the last 40 years of fusion energy, which have fixated on building bigger and bigger machines. The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. But that’s not going to happen.

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