Eye popping footage here of a solar thermal site in the Chinese desert. I’m not a fan of thermal, which can have the advantage of energy storage with molten salt add-ons. But the low price of battery tech will probably limit the number of these that get built.
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More and more places that aren’t blessed/cursed with hydrocarbons are going to keep responding to instability in supply chains of fuels by kicking the habit. China’s Communist Party wants stability to stay in control and doing away with the pollution was part of that, as this reporter noted. Now? Not depending on ships delivering fuel is now a no-brainer for them. Sunlight and wind delivers itself.
This afternoon the German Science Guy also put up a video on solar PV and CSP, in Dubai (from visit before Trump’s war). I’ll be interested to see as time goes by whether CSP with salt will be a big role or if just lots of generation everywhere will let electrical heating of salts or sand or whatever dominate the industrial high-temperature process heat market.
More and more places that aren’t blessed/cursed with hydrocarbons are going to keep responding to instability in supply chains of fuels by kicking the habit. China’s Communist Party wants stability to stay in control and doing away with the pollution was part of that, as this reporter noted. Now? Not depending on ships delivering fuel is now a no-brainer for them. Sunlight and wind delivers itself.
This afternoon the German Science Guy also put up a video on solar PV and CSP, in Dubai (from visit before Trump’s war). I’ll be interested to see as time goes by whether CSP with salt will be a big role or if just lots of generation everywhere will let electrical heating of salts or sand or whatever dominate the industrial high-temperature process heat market.
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