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Colorado Startup Develops New Electrolyte for Much Better Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:59:44 +0000

A Colorado-based startup company, Boulder Ionics, has invented a liquid electrolyte based on molten salts that can revolutionize the entire energy storage industry. For example, it could replace a starter car battery with one the size of a flashlight. How about that? The new ionic liquid can operate at higher voltages and temperatures, doesn’t ignite […]

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Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project to Power Las Vegas Starting Next Year

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:41:41 +0000

Molten salt storage facilities have literally flooded the news lately, as they’re present in most of the countries harvesting solar power in a serious manner. However, SolarReserve, a NV-based company, plans to power Las Vegas’s city lights with such a system – a big challenge, no matter how you think of it. The 540-foot high […]

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Rice Solar Energy Project Uses Molten Salts To Store Californian Sunlight For Use At Night

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:24 +0000

A new and revolutionary solar power project has been recently approved by the state of California. SolarReserve is the company behind the Rice Solar Energy Project, which will store heat from thermal collectors in molten salt beneath the surface.

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Fulvalene Diruthenium Studied As Alternative To Molten Salts For Renewable Energy Storage

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:43:04 +0000

Storing energy is almost as important as producing it, because wind and solar have the property of being intermittent sources - either they produce in excess or lack completely. Molten salts are currently the most used solution for storing energy in the form of heat, but they sometimes tend to be expensive and not so efficient.

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Archimede: World's First Concentrated Solar Power Plant That Uses Molten Salts as Energy Storage

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:59:29 +0000

First of all, Italy is one of the leading innovators in solar power. On July 15, their electricity company Enel has unveiled Archimede, their most innovative power plant using concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, where parabolic mirrors focus the Sun's light onto capturing surfaces which take the heat to the storage location. For the first time in the world, molten salts have been used as storage for the heat they captured from the Sun.

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Breakthrough Carbon Capture Using Ionic Liquids

Cristi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:48:44 +0000

Founded by scientists from the University of Colorado, ION Engineering has brought in sight a new technology that uses ionic liquids - nonvolatile molten salts - to capture carbon emissions.

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