MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts

MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts

from Next Big Future by noreply@blogger.com (bw)

Diagram shows the idealized arrangement of a vat of molten salt used to store solar heat, located at the base of a gently-sloping hillside that could be covered with an array of steerable mirrors all guided to focus sunlight down onto the vat.
Image: Courtesy of Alexander Slocum et al.

MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts, supplying constant power.