The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $33 million for nine projects across seven states to advance concentrating solar-thermal (CST) systems technologies for solar fuel production and long-duration energy storage.
CST technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver, helping to produce carbon-free clean fuels.
“Under the Biden-Harris administration, DOE continues to invest in the next-generation solar technologies we need to tackle the climate crisis and ensure American scientific innovation remains the envy of the world,” says U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
“With today’s announcement, DOE is supporting projects that will harness the sun’s energy to power NASA space missions, beer and wine production, and everything in between.”
To accelerate the development of energy storage technologies, DOE launched the Long Duration Storage Shot to slash costs within the decade. Breakthroughs in the industrial sectors are supported by DOE’s Industrial Heat Shot, Hydrogen Shot and the Clean Fuels & Products Shot.
Three selected projects will leverage heat from solar energy to make renewable fuels:
- Exergy Labs: This project will develop a modular dish reactor for clean hydrogen and test prototype dish reactors on-site in North Carolina and Arizona.
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory: This project will develop a novel CST-compatible reactor using carbon monoxide and water vapor to produce products such as jet fuel.
- West Virginia University: Researchers, in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, aim to demonstrate the advantages of direct solar-thermal integration with hydrogen production via a high-temperature solid oxide electrolyzer.
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Regarding the question at left, I’m not sure. Maybe “Stupidity?”
If humankind is forced to migrate to Mars because it’s too stupid to fix the catastrophes it’s created here on Earth, and also stupid enough to believe that taking our criminal insanity to another planet will effectively address our problems, I can’t think of a better name.
An essential part of being a Republican congressperson is being able to convince your constituents of things that are obviously untrue.
It is true that the United States experiences voter fraud, though studies assess it at a miniscule percentage of 1%. But it’s virtually never committed by illegal aliens, since they don’t have the credentials to register to vote in any of our 50 states.
The defining characteristic of a successful GOP representative is his capacity to lie to morons.
What 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said at left was, I’m sure, correct in its time, though I seriously doubt that too many people believe this today.
When it was proven scientifically in the 1960s that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, both my parents quit immediately.
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