[ExI] glory failure

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 20:41:27 UTC 2011


> There's absolutely no reason for solar towers unless you want a lot
> of process heat and want to use a thermal buffer (salt melt) to
> cover diurnal insolation variations.

Solar towers are a nice way to achieve REALLY hot temperatures for
scientific work. As an energy utility, I concur in that I don't think
they will ever amount to much.

-Kelly



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