How we can make solar power at night

We all know about photovoltaic solar panels. But there's another, almost forgotten type of solar energy: concentrated solar power. Its big advantage is that it can store the sun's heat for a long time and turn it into electricity when needed – for example at night, when normal solar panels lie idle. Is it set for a comeback? 

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer
Factcheck: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:

CSP project databases:
https://solarpaces.nrel.gov/?utm_medi...

https://cspdata.com/

NREL best practices study:
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/75...

Status of CSP plants installed worldwide:
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8797/6/1/18

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 How CSP works
02:49 Technology race
05:07 Crescent Dunes
07:03 Comeback?
10:51 Conclusion

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