Storing Solar Power in Salt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Where a typical system uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight and heat water; SolarReserve uses them to heat a salt, which melts into a liquid about twice as dense as water — and here’s the catch: stored in thermal silo, the melted salt is able to...

The secret to low-water-use, high-efficiency concentrating solar power « Climate Progress
If concentrating solar power (“CSP”) is a core climate solution, indirect dry cooling systems (also known as “Heller” systems) will be a crucial enabling technology, since large-scale CSP will be located in desert regions. US power companies have...

Robert Glennon -- The Unintended Consequences of Solar Power - washingtonpost.com
CSP, just like any thermal power plant, produces waste heat as a byproduct. In most cases, cooling towers release the heat to the atmosphere through evaporation, a process that uses gobs of water. In fact, CSP uses four times as much water as a natural...

Cloud Computing: Why MSPs Need A Single Dashboard
Service Providers are worried about the future prospects of their current managed service offerings in the face of emerging competition. More and more customer compute dollars could flow toward cloud providers with huge scale advantages like Amazon,...

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Could the Sahara’s sun save us? - Times Online
Whatever mix of technologies we choose, decarbonising Britain’s energy system requires a lot of building. If we find dependence on Saharan sunshine unpalatable, or if we don’t like the idea of building 60 new nuclear power stations, we can revisit...

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