GE Global Research is exploring renewable energy system
ables are turned on declaring CO2 as one of the key enemies of mankind and the future, at least in one initiative. Scientists there have come up with a twist. While CO2 emissions are notorious contributors to climate change, thinkers working in the realm of renewable energy are seeing CO2 not as either-or clean energy sources, but as an and-and.
They are exploring how a CO2-powered "sunrotor" can be used for clean electricity. In their plan, CO2 can actually be used to help us, not block us, to move from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sources.
At GE Global Research, a team is out to demonstrate if we can actually use excess carbon dioxide produced by power plants to store extra solar power and deliver it back to the grid for later use.
Mark Egan wrote about the undertaking in GE Reports. Stephen Sanborn, senior engineer and principal investigator at GE Global Research (GRC), said, "We need to make renewable energy available to the grid when it is needed." That means finding an optimal way of energy storage. Sanborn and team's design involves storing some of the heat generated by thermal solar power plants in carbon dioxide.
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