See the link below. From the article:
"New York (CNN Business) -- A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.
Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Essentially, Heliogen created a solar oven — one capable of reaching temperatures that are roughly a quarter of what you'd find on the surface of the sun.
The breakthrough means that, for the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes. In other words, carbon-free sunlight can replace fossil fuels in a heavy carbon-emitting corner of the economy that has been untouched by the clean energy revolution.
"We are rolling out technology that can beat the price of fossil fuels and also not make the CO2 emissions," Bill Gross, Heliogen's founder and CEO, told CNN Business. "And that's really the holy grail.""
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html
Very promising. Let's see if companies are willing to make the investment.
The article goes on to discuss Heliogen's pursuit of customers for their technology. Cement and steel producers are obvious targets. What about athletics? Penn State should be the first to make a sizable investment to make Franklin's hot seat even hotter. Franklin does want state-of-the-art facilities.
"New York (CNN Business) -- A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.
Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so much sunlight that it generates extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Essentially, Heliogen created a solar oven — one capable of reaching temperatures that are roughly a quarter of what you'd find on the surface of the sun.
The breakthrough means that, for the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes. In other words, carbon-free sunlight can replace fossil fuels in a heavy carbon-emitting corner of the economy that has been untouched by the clean energy revolution.
"We are rolling out technology that can beat the price of fossil fuels and also not make the CO2 emissions," Bill Gross, Heliogen's founder and CEO, told CNN Business. "And that's really the holy grail.""
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html
Very promising. Let's see if companies are willing to make the investment.
The article goes on to discuss Heliogen's pursuit of customers for their technology. Cement and steel producers are obvious targets. What about athletics? Penn State should be the first to make a sizable investment to make Franklin's hot seat even hotter. Franklin does want state-of-the-art facilities.