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New Strategies Needed to Sell Solar Heat for Mining
Direct solar heat - Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) - is a potential renewable resource for replacing heat from burning fossil fuels for industries like mining, as its technologies generate heat directly from sunlight at anywhere from 150°C to 1500°C. But lack of...
Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale
What if the molten salts in the thermal energy storage tank could simply be heated directly by concentrated solar energy?
Synhelion, Wood Advance 100% Solar Hydrogen
The ETH spin-off Synhelion is working on commercializing its very high-temperature solar thermochemical fuels (like jet fuel and hydrogen) and has already formed partnerships with several larger firms making cement or aviation fuel to advance step by step towards its...
The Fastest Route to Commercialize Solar Hydrogen – is through Australian Copper Mines?
By making solar hydrogen as an industrial service for copper mining, the scale is established for mass production
Could a Perovskite make Cheaper Solar Hydrogen?
A perovskite may be more cost-effective than ceria for solar-driven thermochemical hydrogen production, a new paper suggests. One perovskite formulation that works at a slightly lower temperature than ceria is explored by Xin Qian in the paper Outstanding Properties...
To Make Green Ammonia, US Researchers Design a Novel Solar Process
As a vital component of fertilizers, ammonia (NH3) is the second most-produced industrial chemical in the world. Annual production is around 180 million metric tons and almost 90% of this production goes to meet the global demand for agricultural production....
At the SolarPACES Conference, Heliogen Introduces Solar Heat at 1 cent/kWh
Solar PV for electricity is great, but the world needs solar fuels too, fuel for planes, fuel for ships and fuel for steel and cement.
Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next
A state of the art assessment of day or night solar thermochemistry at very high temperatures 1,000ºC to 2,000ºC
Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes
Two teams of solar researchers have developed a novel solar reactor and thermochemical process for making solar hydrogen that can generate in addition carbon black and graphite as well as carbon nanotubes. Working over a six-year period, the teams first developed the...
Capabilities of Each of the Solar Fuels Research Institutions
NATION; CITY INSTITUTE ITEM: 2020 STATUS DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATION CONTACT Australia; Canberra ANU High-Flux Solar Simulator 18×Xe lamps, focal heat 15 kWth with approx 10,000 suns. Lab is equipped with gas supplies. Professor Wojciech Lipinski Australia; Canberra ANU...
How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel?
If one “solar refinery” manufactured all the aviation fuel needed for the entire world from CO2+H2O captured from air using solar energy – all in just one site, the solar field would stretch for example, from Paraburdoo to Capricorn in the Western Australian desert
At Synhelion, Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off
A Swiss startup is working on commercializing two routes to solar jet fuel – to market first by 2022, and by 2030, from direct air capture of CO2 and H2O
Japan and Australia Test Solar Hydrogen Component
For countries such as Japan or South Korea with poor DNI and little space for wind and solar, the value of hydrogen is that it can be made overseas with renewable energy, then stored and shipped, and used to produce electricity, heat, or propulsion. This way,...
Australian Researchers Design a Solar Process for Algae-Derived Solar Fuel
Algae is a potential energy feedstock that is synergistic with solar fuels because algae can be grown in salt water on cheap desert land with a good solar resource, and it also contains the chemicals needed for making solar fuels (hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen)....
Scientists Test World’s First Solar Fuels Reactor for Night
International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night - because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) and includes thermal energy storage....
Why solar thermochemistry would generate the greenest hydrogen
What part could solar thermochemistry play in building a future hydrogen economy? For an overview, we interviewed a top solar hydrogen expert, Christian Sattler, who holds 18 patents and has authored 158 peer-reviewed papers on the technology. Sattler heads the...
How Synhelion’s solar jet fuel started – an interview in 2017
Thermochemical solar fuel manufacturing would be an energy industry with a life of centuries, rather than decades. The feedstock of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water is essentially unlimited. Scientists with the SOLAR-JET Project have demonstrated the first-ever...
Click here to download the PDF Version (11MB) of the SolarPACES Annual Report 2009
Annual Report 2009 Edited by C. Richter in cooperation with J. Blanco, P. Heller, M. Mehos A. Meier, R. Meyer International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Cover picture 5 MW Solar Tower Plant...
Click here to download the PDF Version (15MB) of the SolarPACES Annual Report 2010
Annual Report 2010 Edited by C. Richter in cooperation with J. Blanco, P. Heller, M. Mehos A. Meier, R. Meyer International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. Cover picture: Part of the 1.5 MW...
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