Concentrated Solar Power | Engineering with Rosie Live Ep. 23

Thanks to Keith Lovegrove from ITP for sharing his extensive CSP knowledge with us in this livestream. You can get in touch with Keith through ITP: https://itpthermal.com/

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Bookmarks:
00:00 Intro
01:24 Introducing Keith Lovegrove
03:47 Solar One (CSP Video Correction)
06:15 Past Problems and Failures of CSP Projects
12:04 Long-running CSP Projects
13:42 Integrated CSP Project in the UAE
15:13 Where should we locate CSP projects? California, Spain, Middle East, China
22:16 Wind, dust and other source of damages
24:18 Cooling strategies and water source
28:40 Slight tangent on the laws of thermodynamics
30:59 Energy Density and Land Use of CSP vs PV
36:29 The age-old “Bird Problem”
42:37 Converting coal steam turbines to CSP
49:24 The road to decarbonisation starts now
52:02 How does CSP compete against other renewables technologies?
55:03 Outro

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