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From sunlight to stored power: how hot air could solve solar energy’s biggest challenge
EU-funded researchers are looking to hot air to overcome the supply and demand issues faced by solar energy and ease the clean energy transition.By Michael AllenAs the world shifts toward renewable ...
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Concentrating solar power with heat storage could compete with batteries
Concentrating solar power plus thermal energy storage (CSP+TES) could be cost-competitive with battery storage for achieving a low-cost, 100% renewables grid in the continental United States ...
University of Chicago News13d
Roland Winston, pioneer in solar energy, engineering and physics, 1936–2025
Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...
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Solar Energy
Concentrating solar power, developed by the US Department of Energy in 1982, uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receivers containing a heat-absorbing fluid. The heated fluid is ...
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It’s like 5,000 suns — 20 kW from these parabolic solar panels
Swiss-based solar panel company Airlight Energy has partnered with IBM Research to use IBM's direct wam-water cooling design to develop a parabolic system.
pv magazine International1y
Floating concentrating photovoltaic thermal system for carbon capture
Norway-based research firm Sintef and Norwegian floating PV specialist Svalin Solar are currently developing a floating concentrating photovoltaic thermal (CPVT) receiver that is intended for use ...
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Federal Plan for Public Lands Solar Development Opens 31 Million Acres in 11 Western States
Important habitats for vulnerable species such as desert tortoises remain open for development. The Center had advocated for concentrating solar development on previously disturbed public lands. Also ...