Distilled sunshine

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hodson determines how storing solar heat in liquid form will underpin the grid of the future. In the searing heat 130 kilometers south-west of Phoenix AZ 3000 mirrors carpet hectares of desert. Part of a power plant that produces about 900 gigawatt-hours of electricity a year, they gather enough sunlight to power 70,000 homes. This is Solana, the largest solar plant of its kind in the world, directly coupled to the biggest non-hydroelectric energy-storage system in the US. Opened in October 2013, it's a zero-carbon power plant that could underpin the energy grid of the future