molten-salt Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 World’s First Ever Solar Plant Provides Power Day and Night https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:48:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60132 Crescent Dunes Project, located in Nevada, goes down in history as the first ever solar power plant, which provides clean electricity 24 hours a day. Renewable energy is slowly getting closer to the place on the energy market that it deserves. Technology improves, reliability and efficiency increase, and consequently investments get a boost too. Limitations […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/feed/ 0 60132 Solana Power is United States’ First Molten Salt Solar Power Plant https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solana-power-molten-salt-power-plant-20131011/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solana-power-molten-salt-power-plant-20131011/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:51:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42398 Solana Power, southwest of Phoenix, Arizona is ready to come online as the first solar plant in the U.S. to use molten salt for energy storage. It has taken $2 billion in funding, and a Department of Energy loan guarantee to reach this point. It has also added 2 million jobs. The plant features hundreds […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solana-power-molten-salt-power-plant-20131011/feed/ 0 42398 Molten Salt Solar Thermal Power Plant on Track for Completion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:14:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35805 This month, workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Tonopah, Nevada. When completed, the solar energy plant, based on molten salt thermal technology, will be the first of its kind in the world. Crescent Dunes uses thousands of special […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/feed/ 0 35805 TransAtomic Molten-Salt Nuclear Reactor, Cheaper and Safer? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/transatomic-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-20130313/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/transatomic-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-20130313/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:16:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34810 Concerns over nuclear energy are at an all-time high, but the TransAtomic molten-salt nuclear reactor design could be safer, as well as cheaper. In the 1960’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] tested molten-salt nuclear reactors, but the technology was never commercialized. TransAtomic is reopening the books on the technology. Since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima […]

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