{"id":17182,"date":"2018-10-21T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2018-10-21T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T18:46:12","slug":"new-material-could-up-efficiency-of-concentrated-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17182","title":{"rendered":"New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Above a certain temperature, it becomes possible to replace the steam with supercritical carbon dioxide. This works more efficiently, potentially providing a boost of more than 20 percent, but it requires temperatures in excess of 1,000K. That makes things a bit more challenging, given that many metals will melt at such temperatures; others will react with carbon dioxide under these conditions. Finding a material that could work involves balancing a lot of factors, including heat and chemical resistance, ea<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/10\/new-material-could-up-efficiency-of-concentrated-solar-power\/\">New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above a certain temperature, it becomes possible to replace the steam with supercritical carbon dioxide. This works more efficiently, potentially providing a boost of more than 20 percent, but it requires temperatures in excess of 1,000K. That makes things a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100,631,1209,936],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research","tag-material-science","tag-solar-power","tag-thermodynamics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17183,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}