The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is betting big on supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the key to making concentrated solar power (CSP) a cost-competitive driver to decarbonize high-temperature ...
image: Three new solar thermal technologies, solid (particles), liquid (molten salts), and gas (sCO2) are to be combined with a Brayton power loop to bring down costs of solar towers; the future of 24 ...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has broken ground on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3), a novel concentrating solar power (CSP) facility at Sandia National Laboratory that will use sand-like ...
SAN ANTONIO -- April 8, 2019 -- A team of Southwest Research Institute and General Electric (GE) engineers have designed, built and tested the highest temperature supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) ...