Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Solar Concentrator - Solar energy storage for solar concentrator




Solar energy storage for solar concentrator Corn oil heated by a solar concentrator circulate in a saturated salty water releasing at each stage its energy. Oil is less dense than water so it circulates up to the top naturally.



In the News:




Breakthrough Solar Technology a Game Changer
REVE
SHEC Energy's proprietary Concentrated Solar Power system introduces new technology that dramatically lowers the cost of the solar field and significantly increases the efficiency of solar thermal energy storage. Clean, renewable, cost-competitive and ...

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Vanguard Space Technologies Awarded a Multi-Million Dollar Subcontract From ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Vanguard also has emerging growing business in space power and optical and thermal products, which includes deployable solar arrays, modular solar arrays, loop heat pipe radiator panels, infra-red and sub-millimeter reflectors, and solar concentrators.

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Concentrated Solar Power Market Set To Double by 2020
Earth & Industry
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) may trace its roots to when Leonardo da Vinci first conceived a parabolic mirror concentrator to heat water, but the technology's future may be brighter than ever. According to a Pike Research study, the market as a whole ...

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The Intersection of Information and Energy Technologies
Technology Review
By Bill Gross Smart energy: Entrepreneur Bill Gross amid the solar-thermal concentrators of eSolar's Sierra SunTower in 2009. Two talks at the TED conference this year formed, back to back, a sort of debate about the future of our planet.




New Scientist (blog)

Why Jupiter's moon Ganymede is an exciting destination
New Scientist (blog)
A €1 billion mission to place spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter's largest moon - also the largest in the solar system - has received the green light from the European Space Agency. Called the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, or Juice, the spacecraft will ...

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