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**chootsonege** · 10-10-2011, 05:54 PM

This is basically like concentrating the sun with a magnifying glass to start a fire, except the heat is used to boil water which turns a generator. In this case they added a eutectic salt mixture to store energy for use at night. Of course they lose a lot of daytime generation melting the salt, but spread the power generation out over a longer period. Sounds like a good design.

10-10-2011, 05:54 PM	#11
chootsonege Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	This is basically like concentrating the sun with a magnifying glass to start a fire, except the heat is used to boil water which turns a generator. In this case they added a eutectic salt mixture to store energy for use at night. Of course they lose a lot of daytime generation melting the salt, but spread the power generation out over a longer period. Sounds like a good design.
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