Phase Change Material Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:47:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Refrigerators Use Salt to Store Energy During Off Hours https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:47:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56648 Solar-powered refrigerators will go completely off the grid if a certain team of Australian researchers has anything to do with it. They have recently won the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes for their breakthrough with a salt-based material that can store energy. Glaciem Cooling Technologies is working on commercializing the idea, so the system may be available […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/feed/ 0 56648 New Phase Change Material Offers Huge Energy Savings in Buildings https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phase-change-heat-regulating-material-20110804/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phase-change-heat-regulating-material-20110804/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:28:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19971 The novel non-deformed energy storage phase change material (PCM), as the scientists dubbed it, can efficaciously regulate heat, by virtue of its large energy storage capacity. The best part is that it could be cheaply manufactured.

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