ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to lower the cost of solar energy systems and improve efficiencies in a big way, thanks to a system of small particles. This month, engineers lifted Sandia’s continuously recirculating falling particle receiver to the top of the tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility, […]
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Testing heats up at Sandia’s Solar Tower with high temperature falling particle receiver
July 1, 2015 – 5:00 am
By Rebecca Brock
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Sandia Labs harnessing the sun’s energy with tiny particles
September 16, 2013 – 9:10 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun’s energy to electricity in large-scale, concentrating solar power plants. Falling particle receiver technology is attractive because it can […]
By Stephanie Hobby
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Posted in Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Also tagged concentrating solar power, falling particle receiver, solar, solar tower, sunshot
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