At his studio outside Paris, we watch Kiefer laboring on some of his latest projects — working
with molten lead.
General Fusion's system uses a sphere, filled
with molten lead - lithium that is pumped to form a vortex.
Not exact matches
Novel designs
with alternative cooling fluids other than water, such as Transatomic Power's
molten salt — cooled reactor or the liquid
lead — bismuth design from Hyperion Power, are in development.
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.
The plume below pulsed through the slab,
leading to massive outpourings of magma, the pattern and timing of which appear consistent
with the Steens — Columbia River flood basalts, which spewed out one million times more
molten rock than the 1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption.
Like Robert Morris, on the other hand, Richard Serra made his work by experimenting
with materials; for example, he threw
molten lead into the corners of a room, or he cut, propped or stacked
lead sheets, rough timber, etc. in order to create large, strangely balanced structures.
For the show, Richard Serra flung 460 pounds of
molten lead against the walls, while Lawrence Weiner removed a section of the wall, and Michael Heizer smashed the street in front of the museum
with a wrecking ball.
As
with much of the artist's work, dating back to the floor of
molten lead she created for the legendary «Freeze» show, the tree provokes an onrush of associations.
Those familiar
with Serra's entire oeuvre will also make connections between prints
with a splattered affect and his early installations in which he hurled
molten lead at the wall, creating sculptures from the accumulation of the substance.
The curtain in question shimmers from reflected light, but it also drapes
with such weight as to appear poured from
molten lead.
The first of its kind in Australia, the Aurora Solar Energy Project will utilise SolarReserve's world
leading solar thermal technology
with integrated
molten salt energy storage.