That molten salt can be used immediately to superheat water, or stored in insulated tanks to drive the thermal-power process during cloudy weather or at night.
Shenhua Group in China, the biggest coal producer in the world, and the American company SolarReserve intent to invest 2 billion dollars in concentrated solar power.
The aim is to realize 1GW of solar projects in China.
Thinking small is big deal: DOE to push US manufacturing of small modular reactors
Students chose nuclear – University of California-Berkeley professor Rachel Slaybaugh summed up the buzz around nuclear technology innovation during a recent roundtable on advanced nuclear power: “Now is an exciting time to be in nuclear energy,” she said.
“Nobody told today’s students that nuclear innovation is supposed to be slow. They chose nuclear because they want to save the world.
Defining how the universities facilitate collaboration between students and industry will be key to our success.”
The first Ecovat Thermo Energy Storage Tank almost ready for use
The Dutch startup Ecovat is making the energy supply in the built environment sustainable, by creating a large thermal storage tank that is able to store high temperature heat (to around 90 degrees C) over a longer period (> 6 months) with a loss of energy in this period of less than 10%.
Dr. Ir. J van Berkel (TU/e) has confirmed this in a desk research. (Report “Ecovat Thermodynamics”, March 20th, 2014). Read More
A business park can start their own experiment in which they themselves monitor the electricity on site. The operator will only deliver to the connection of the grid site. The business park or a third party is responsible for the delivery to the individual companies. Read More
Energy storage by Flywheels is a storage to watch right now.
A flywheel converts electrical energy to kinetic energy.
An electric motor/generator starts a heavy rotating disk that converts a lot of energy because of its high mechanical inertia.
The energy in a flywheel can quickly be converted to electrical energy by which these systems often have a high power in relation to their capacity. Read More
The Molten Salt Battery is a battery to watch right now. An overview.
In Molten Salt Batteries (also known as liquid metal batteries) two liquid electrodes are separated by a molten salt electrolyte.
Characteristic of salts is that these are guiding in the liquid state because the ions are allowed to move freely. The salt and the electrodes separate themselves by their different densities and immiscibility. Read More