Solar thermal technology has the potential to provide both long-duration storage and industrial heat, yet it has been largely overlooked in the Australian context. That is about to change.

When Ivanpah was conceived, its technology, called concentrated solar or thermal solar, was considered a potential breakthrough. It works like this: Hundreds of thousands of computer-controlled ...

As of 2011, the technology produced less than one tenth ... On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source.

Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP ... is the final component of its CSP technology to be built and tested at operational scale. The receiver tower design “will deliver more efficient ...

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

Solar thermal technology [1], is promising for both small and utility scale renewable energy systems and solar thermionics [2] is an emerging technology where solar energy heats a metal such that ...

The Solar to Fuels and Back Again Symposium, which took place on 12 October 2009 at Imperial College London, started with the bold statement: “If the leaf can do it we can do it even better ...

The development of high-temperature storage systems and heat exchangers to increase energy efficiency in power plant and process technology applications Liquid salt storage systems for thermal energy ...

Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a ... conversion efficiency of 0.75%, and a solar-thermal conversion efficiency of 24% with a ventilated air ...

When Ivanpah was conceived, its technology, called concentrated solar or thermal solar, was considered a potential breakthrough. It works like this: Hundreds of thousands of computer-controlled ...