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Balloons Test Environmental Safety of Advanced Solar Power Tower Tech
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories recently used 22-foot-wide tethered balloons to collect samples of airborne dust particles to ensure the safety of an emerging [...]
Concentrated Solar Power Technology In India – Barriers In Widespread Expansion
India’s solar target is 100 GW by the year 2020. This, however, does not include CSP, that is, concentrated solar power. Owing to India’s geographical [...]
EnergyNest secures €110m investment from M&G-backed Infracapital
EnergyNest, the global market leader in Thermal Batteries, today announces it has signed an investment agreement with Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of the [...]
22-04-2021
Balloons Test Environmental Safety of Advanced Solar Power Tower Tech
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories recently used 22-foot-wide tethered balloons to collect samples of airborne dust particles to ensure the safety of an emerging solar-power technology. The study determined that the dust created by [...]
Concentrated Solar Power Technology In India – Barriers In Widespread Expansion
India’s solar target is 100 GW by the year 2020. This, however, does not include CSP, that is, concentrated solar power. Owing to India’s geographical position just north of the equator, India has a huge potential [...]
EnergyNest secures €110m investment from M&G-backed Infracapital
EnergyNest, the global market leader in Thermal Batteries, today announces it has signed an investment agreement with Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of the FTSE 100 listed M&G plc. The agreement comprises a €110 [...]
100-Gigawatt-Hour Crushed-Rock Heat Storage for Concentrated Solar Power and Nuclear
A very large-scale long duration energy storage (LDES) idea from MIT envisages a 1 kilometer-long, 60 meter-wide lidded central storage container of rocks sunk 20 meters down into the ground – about the size of [...]
Dubai bets on a future more ‘solar’ and low in carbon emissions
With the emergence of ‘renewable technologies’, many hope to reverse the impact of climate change, with initiatives such as the Mohammed BinRashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, located in the desert south of Dubai. It is [...]