"24 hours of continuous power at full capacity." China is using thousands of mirrors to harness the sun’s energy ‘[A] new ...

Molten salt flowing through the receiver is heated to run a generator. Other solar technologies are passive. For example, big windows placed on the sunny side of a building allow sunlight to heat ...

Rooftop solar panels are a familiar sight but are not the only way the sun is used to create energy. As China ups its ...

The Évora Molten Salt Platform has a solar field, a salt storage system, a steam generator with a connected water-steam cycle as well as a control system and auxiliary equipment. In the solar field, ...

During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British ...

The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park on Wednesday witnessed the installation of the Molten Salt Receiver (MSR) on top of the world's tallest solar power tower at 262.44 metres.

Our current research focuses on solar tower systems using molten salt, air, or particles as heat transfer media and molten salt parabolic trough systems. We are working to ensure that concentrating ...

For many industries, lithium batteries just don't cut it — they're getting increasingly expensive, require too much space, ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

During the day, photovoltaic solar panels supply cheap electricity, while the CSP plant heats up the molten salt. At night, when the solar panels can't produce electricity, the stored heat in the ...