Many of us have seen solar power plants of this type, and making primitive versions of these mirror dishes was the goal for some of us, for example this case...
Some of this stuff would be very easy to copy or modify.
You make some good points but heat can be stored as thermal mass. The losses in converting the solar heat into another type of energy storage like batteries negates simply storing it in a large vat of sand for example.
You make some good points but heat can be stored as thermal mass. The losses in converting the solar heat into another type of energy storage like batteries negates simply storing it in a large vat of sand for example.
the kinds of lovely insights i can usually find on lemmy 💜