Oct

12

System to Store Heat Energy Built Using Molten Silicon

October 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

Researchers from the Solar Energy Institute at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) are developing a new energy storage system in which the entry energy, either from solar energy or surplus electricity from a renewable power generation, is stored in the form of heat in molten silicon at very high temperature, around 1400° C. The […]

Sep

20

Possible Gain In Generating Electricity From Heat

September 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Purdue University researchers with an international team of collaborators have used a ‘thermal metamaterial’ to control the emission of radiation at high temperatures. The advance that could bring about devices able to efficiently harvest waste heat from power plants and factories. Generally, its known that about 50 to 60 percent of the energy generated in […]

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