Brighten up a neutral dining room
with molten - iron orange stools and chairs.
The complete system,
with molten salt heat stores at regeneration sites, would comprise some 50 GW of firm electricity generation, plus peaking plant, suburban mCHP, and inter-connectors.
Obviously it would be even better to replace coal with wind (especially offshore), solar (especially concentrating thermal
with molten salt heat storage), geothermal, hydro (including pumped storage), and even nuclear (thorium would fix most of the downsides), and that's happening slowly right now.
Lastly in terms of renewable sources — you solve dispatchability problems by mixing wind, solar thermal electricty (
with molten salt storage), hydro, geothermal.
A concentrating solar thermal power plant, even
with molten salt storage, may work better with computers, nanostructured absorbers, and other advantages of modern technology, but it doesn't require tech any more sophisticated than 1800's steam engines.
This weekend, President Obama doled out $ 1.45 billion in loan guarantees for Abengoa's 250 - megawatt solar thermal plant
with molten salt storage in Gila Bend, Arizona.
When the latest blackout hit in September, they were left
with molten metal in containers that would be a total loss if power could not quickly be supplied to keep the metal from solidifying.
CST
with molten salt storage is, by contrast, in pre-production right now at Solar Tres after a completely successful lab scale project called Solar Two that demonstrated all aspects of molten salt as a working fluid and 10 hour storage.
The first commercial concentrated solar thermal plant
with molten salt storage - Andasol 1 - was completed in Spain in 2009.
Another entrant in the CSP
with molten salt storage field is Santa Monica, Calif. - based SolarReserve, which is building a 110 - megawatt solar thermal plant in Nevada with help from a $ 737 million DOE loan guarantee.
It didn't seem to work all that well
with a molten globe like the Earth.
All of the actinides (uranium, plutonium) can be used for fuel
with molten salt reactors or some other high burn reactors.
It is caused by water coming in contact
with the molten material under the Earth's crust called magma (it's lava when it emerges).
To build upon your example, we may ask «Will the earths average atmospheric temperature cause the streets to run
with molten rock».
Advanced designs are experimenting
with molten nitrate salt because of its superior heat transfer and energy storage capabilities.
In some ways, the technology is similar to the method that Tyco, Abengoa and Enel are using to replace therminol, the heat - carrying fluid in most parabolic trough systems,
with molten salt to improve efficiency.
Noor III, at 150 MW, the world's second utility - scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tower
with molten salt storage, will deliver power to Morocco's electricity grid by October, if not sooner.
As you might have learned if you went to an evil public school (as opposed to enlightened home schooling), so - called scientists have long claimed that the earth is composed of a relatively thin crust floating on what is more - or-less bubbling hot lava
with a molten iron core at its center.
But if you want to watch a really bad movie that is completely without any scientific merit, watch, «The Core» and become very worried that mankind will cause its own destruction by messing
with the molten ball of iron at the center.
The 375 MW Ivanpah project, the largest solar power tower in the world, has delivered to the grid for the first time and is due to start full operations within the next few months, as is the 110 MW Crescent Dunes facility in Nevada, which will be the world's largest solar power tower project
with molten salt.
She made these works by digging holes in a sandbox, and filling
them with molten bronze; because the shape of the holes differed, each sculpture is unique.
At his studio outside Paris, we watch Kiefer laboring on some of his latest projects — working
with molten lead.
The brazen finish of new copper works acts in direct and conscious opposition to the deceptively staid appearance of Weiser's interference - pattern paintings,
with their molten finish that is almost geologic in its force.
In the foyer gallery are drawings made
with molten glass and a branding implement and «Travel by Night,» a sculpture in the shape of a five - foot - tall lantern.
In the Pilchuck studio, they filled the mold
with molten glass to create a sculptural form.
Also on tap are works by Pop artist Marjorie Strider, work by acclaimed contemporary sculptor Albert Paley, a «stunning» triptych by Etsuko Ichikawa, who paints
with molten glass, and work by street photographer Judy Mauer.
There's something magical about watching artists work
with molten glass, and we hold a free daily demo at noon every day the Studio is open.
In making the works at a glass foundry, Wynne literally «draws» the letters
with molten liquid on a flat surface.
[1] These models or «ghosts» (as the artist refers to them) are then cast, burning the wood away
with molten bronze, creating one, unique sculpture to which she then methodically, expertly applies her patina.
All of this onrushing energy seems to be culminating in the spectacular version of «The Raft of the Medusa» (1990), a contemporary take on Gericault's masterpiece as a fragment of a plane crash, complete
with molten aluminum and splintered wiring.
Towering over the Frozen North lies the mighty volcano,
with molten fury pouring across jet - black slopes.
This fiery creation uses the subset lended by the Boomranger costume, and replaces
it with a molten «Dragon Slayer» variant.
Johnson writes
with molten ink heated, passionate, page - burning.
We liked it, but collectively wondered if we'd like to get up every morning for five years and be greeted
with Molten Pearl in the driveway.
Every frame is a work of art with beautifully stunning environments such as a graveyard for dragons, caverns made of crystal, dimly lit crypts, twisted forests, abandoned mines, a mushroom village, and a dastardly forge filled
with molten metal where the undead army crafts their weapons.
In that sense, it's a hopeful story, but we can't be blamed for expecting something
with a molten core.
Beautiful and rare Chanel sautoir necklace of golden metal
with molten glass and costume pearls and cylinders of golden metal.
It's a basic pumpkin bread
with molten chocolate filling and a whole lot of cinnamon pecan streusel on top.
With a molten blue glazed base, the Uttermost Fulco Table Lamp can be displayed in any room thanks to its clean and simple design.
That's the case
with this molten lava cake.
Not only does this exercise get you winded and your heart beating like a racehorse's, it also makes your thighs burn like they're being filled
with molten iron.
Magma has high electrical conductivity, he explained, a trait that laboratory studies have demonstrated
with molten rocks similar to those expected to lie beneath Io's surface.
During the simulations, it was found that the planetary bodies would have to strike each other at a rate of 2.5 km (1.6 miles) per second to produce an impact plume
with molten droplets that would cool at the correct rate to create chondrules with the characteristics we observe today.
While typical processes start
with molten titanium, our team used titanium hydride powder — cutting processing time in half and significantly reducing energy consumption.
A leading theory advanced to explain this is «catastrophic resurfacing», the idea that between 300 million and 1 billion years ago, volcanoes covered most of the surface of Venus
with molten flows and buried or destroyed any craters that existed then.
Next time, he says, he'll make a first pour
with molten aluminum and a second pour in zinc.
Debris left over from the solar system's creation regularly slammed into Earth, boiling away the early ocean and coating the planet
with molten rock.
The researchers simply run a current between two electrodes in a crucible filled
with molten lithium carbonate, which melts at 723 °C, and a few types of metal.
One thing was odd about Chelyabinsk compared to other LL chondrites: it was shot through with cracks that had filled in
with molten metal.
As efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs
with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possible.