Concentrated solar plant turns to plastic mirrors to power clean heat

South Australia researchers will team with industry partners to build a concentrated solar thermal plant in New South Wales featuring lightweight plastic mirrors that incorporate an aluminium-silica reflective coating to produce industrial heat or electricity. From pv magazine Australia The University of South Australia (UniSA) has joined forces with Queensland-based company Impacts Renewable Energy and Charles Sturt University (CSU) to build a concentrated solar thermal (CST) plant using plastic mirrors to focus sunlight on a target to create heat needed for large-scale industrial and agricultural ...

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