Concentrated solar power (CSP), also called concentrating solar power or concentrated solar thermal, involves systems that collect solar heat for multiple purposes like cooking, desalination, or the generation of electric solar power, by using mirrors to concentrate a large area.
Some power towers use water/steam as the heat-transfer fluid. Other advanced designs are experimenting with high temperature molten salts or sand-like particles to maximize the power cycle temperature.
CSP is used to produce electricity (sometimes called solar thermoelectricity, usually generated through ). Concentrated solar technology systems use or with systems to focus a large area of sunlight onto a small area. The concentrated light is then used as heat or as a heat source for a conventional (solar thermoelectricity). The solar concentrators used in CSP systems can ofte.
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CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver. This heat - also known as thermal energy - can be used to spin a turbine or power an engine to generate.
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