Heat
Distributed solar is a great solution for households and offices. But when it comes to powering industrial activity, it lacks punch. Solar panels simply don’t generate enough heat to make cement, steel or glass and to support other industrial processes. But that may be about to change thanks to a concentrated solar technology breakthrough funded by Bill Gates. Clean energy company Heliogen has discovered how to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to generate extreme heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius, a quarter of the temperature of the surface of the sun. The renewables race is hotting up!
— Wayne Visser
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