26 July 2010
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Longer heat retention of salts means plant can operate overnight and in intermittent sunshine
What is claimed to be the world’s first solar thermal concentration plant to use molten salt as the heat transfer fluid has been opened by Italian energy company Enel in Sicily. The 5MW Archimede plant...
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