While electricity generation has been the star of the energy transition show, about half of the world’s energy consumption is to make heat. Many industrial processes rely on fossil fuels to reach high temps right now, but researchers at ETH Zurich have found a new way to crank up the heat with a solar thermal trap. [via SciTechDaily]
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/05/21/industrial-solar-heat-hits-1000%cb%9ac/