Could this be done with Brine from desalination instead of molten salt? Though it may necessary to process the brine so it fits same the function as molten salt.
The Crescent Dunes solar project cost $1Billion in tax money and produces 0 electricity. It's construction also burnt about $1 Billion in fossil fuels to create the useless solar plant. The big national news media had numerous stories on how great this solar project would be for the environment, but none of the big national news outlets ever mentioned that it was a complete failure. Joe 'The Brainless Bolshevik" Biden's 'Great Leap Forward' $4 Trillion spending bills will probably generate hundreds of Billion dollar busts just like the Crescent Dunes flop. Politicians deciding where all of the Trillions of dollars are going to go. A massive number of pork barrel projects, where politics not common sense determines what and where the money is spent.
I really enjoyed seeing it at the Vehas 2 Reno race this weekend. Idk if there's any personal attending to the site anymore but I would absolutely love a tour and in depth explanation of what was trying to be achieved.
Latest news It’s about bankrupt. Sold many times. Cost just under 1 billion to build. muslim obama gave 1 billion to build it. Best part Nancy Pelosi brother-in-law is a shareholder. Just now Nevada power says “ good by to contract “ failed to produce system is junk.
The one criticism of this method is the concentrated sunlight has caused birds to spontaneously combust in flight. If animal safety activists are to be pleased, safety needs to be implemented with either safety cages (though that will reduce incoming sunlight) or build the rigs in desolate areas with as little bird migration as possible (though electric power will be lost over the long transmission distance). It is a cool concept, but like any other good idea on a big scale, some drawback will be a fact.
the heat exchanger is interesting to me as is the Delta T of the return fluid , the circulator used is a true Pump or a differential pressure recirulator that simply establishes flow?
Considering the only resources consumed are the initial construction and occasional topping up of the Molten Salt and water, I'd say it's far more sustainable than any fossil-fuel system at least.
+fromkentucky But I mean would it be able to successfully supply a power grid to a city with say 1 million people. Because where I live in Adelaide, Australia, we currently get a fair few blackouts. This is because of a faulty power grid and bad weather, but because of 50% of the city being run off of wind turbines and other renewable sources, it can take up to a day and in some other remote places of South Australia, it can take a week for the power to be restored. I'd like to think that this solution would be able to help clear out the last 49% of non-renewables and actually have a sustainable power grid that can restore itself within hours.
Jamie, I also live in Adelaide. Those renewables relied on synchronising to the frequency and voltage of base load power so when the base load power went down protection systems shut the whole lot down. Too many politicians not listening to the engineers LOL. SolarReserve mentions that they can operate as base load power which is encouraging. I assume they have the technology to work in parallel with existing power generation.
Hey i was wondering how does molten salt affect ur pipes? and what methods do you use for maintenance if this is an issue? i am thinkin about how corrosion might be a huge factor here as i recall liquids with salt being really bad for metal pipes?
Corrosion is a matter of chemistry. Not all salts corrode all metals. One example is Hastelloy-N, an alloy specifically formulated for the Beryllium-Fluoride salt used in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s. It operated for 5 years with no significant corrosion.
You forgot to mention "THORIUM" in that "experiment". Hey, I wonder if they could ADD a Thorium module to heat the MOLTEN SALT, and continue to produce ELECTRICITY at PEAK CAPACITY... What do you think? a HybridSolarThoriumMoltenSaltStation HSTMSS™ (not Reactor) ITS ALL ABOUT BRANDING/MARKETING. PROBLEM SOLVED LET THE AGE OF THORIUM/SOLAR POWER BEGIN!!!
