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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

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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. Lithium batteries: the future of storage.

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Researchers Propose Solar-Driven Biomass Gasification Pathway for Synthetic Fuel Production

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High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. One of the feasible approaches is heating sand (Olivine, also the catalyst of gasification reaction) by hot molten salt from a solar concentrator tower, using a gasifier designed as a fluidized-bed of olivine particles.

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Solartaxi visits AeroVironment

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They’re mainly along for the ride to demonstrate that photovoltaic solar technology is real and available today. Solartaxi has two Swiss made 14kwhr Zebra batteries which are a molten-salt type battery that has an operating temperature window of 270-350degC (518-662degF). Photovoltaic Solar modules provided by Q-Cells.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. vehicles (EVs) without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge. electrical battery is being charged. The team will.

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