The Fluid – Solar thermal fuel is pumped through transparent tubes to store energy.
Solar power – the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity – is the cheapest and most efficient long-term storage for the energy.
There have been various evolving innovations taking place in the solar industry, and recently scientists in Sweden have conceived and developed a specialised fluid, called a solar thermal fuel, that can store energy from the sun for more than a decade.
“A solar thermal fuel is like a rechargeable battery, but instead of electricity, you put sunlight in and get heat out, which can be triggered on demand,” Jeffrey Grossman, an engineer who works with these materials at the MIT explained to an international media house.
Scientists from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have been working to improve the fluid which is technically a molecule in liquid form composed of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen.
When sunlight falls on it, something unusual happens: the bonds between its atoms are rearranged, turning itself into an energised new version called an isomer.
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This is not the latest. It is a re-hash of reports published in 2017 and earlier. Here is a better reference to this work: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-liquid-storage-solar-energy-effective.html#nRlv