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The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built near Tonopah in Nye County, Nevada. The 110MW plant is the first commercial-grade solar power plant in the U.S. to be fully integrated with energy storage technology. It is also the world’s largest solar power facility with storage. The estimated cost of the project was $1B. In September 2011, Tonopah Solar Energy received a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to finance the construction of the Crescent Dunes solar power plant. The remaining project cost was financed by SolarReserve, the Spanish engineering and construction company ACS Cobra, and the Spanish banking firm Santander. The project entered its commissioning phase in February 2014 following completion of the construction phase. It was expected to generate about half a million megawatt-hours annually of emission-free electricity, enough to meet the needs of approximately 75,000 households. It officially began commercial operations in September 2015. At this time, the project was under contract with Nevada Energy, the electric utility for most of Nevada, to supply its entire output. Perhaps unsurprisingly for such a large facility using cutting-edge technology, however, the plant was plagued with operational difficulties, mostly plumbing issues in handling the extremely hot & corrosive molten salt. Nevada Energy canceled the contract for non-performance in 2019, & the corporate owners filed for bankruptcy. Under new owners, the plant re-began production again in 2021, however, it remains to be seen whether the difficulties were solved.
Solar power has a lot of promise, but a fundamental challenge: it works only when the sun is shining. Hence, any solar power system that can supply energy 24/7 requires some means of energy storage. Electricity, however, is notoriously hard to store, especially at power plant scales. This challenge drives the need for alternative energy-storage technologies. Crescent Dunes has a novel approach to the electricity storage problem. Rather than boil water directly, solar heating is used to melt a salt reservoir, and the molten salt then boils water via a heat exchanger. The cooled but still-liquid salt is then returned to the reservoir for reheating. The hot-salt reservoir is large enough that it can continue boiling water to generate power for 10 hours, long enough to smooth out production when the sun is not shining. Over 10,000 mirrors are focused, under computer control, onto a tower some 656 feet high, where pipes carry the molten salt to be heated. The salt exits to a reservoir where it is held around 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. When electricity is to be generated, this salt is run through the heat exchanger, which makes superheated steam that turns a turbine.
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Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 500
Aperture – f/9
Exposure – 1/1250 second
Focal Length – 135mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Fermilab Pi Shaped Power Lines on A-1 and an "Authorized Personel Only" Sign.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
Photograph taken by Michael Kappel
This is one of many supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. The U.S. Department of Energy emblem hangs above this Cori. I was one of a small number of photographers selected to participate in the May 16, 2018 #LBNLPhotoWalk.
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
Three “accelerators on a chip” made of silicon are mounted on a clear base. A shoebox-sized particle accelerator being developed under a $13.5 million Moore Foundation grant would use a series of these “accelerators on a chip” to boost the energy of electrons.
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Read More: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-11-19-accelerator-on-a-c...
Inside LCLS’s newest hutch, MFX, which saw first X-ray light on Jan. 12, 2020. MFX is specifically designed for macromolecular femtosecond crystallography, a technique that helps researchers unravel crucial biological processes by providing atomic-resolution X-ray images and ultrafast movies of biomolecules in action. The two beam pipes crossing the hutch on the right deliver X-rays to two other LCLS experimental hutches, CXI and MEC.
(Andy Freeberg/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Rebuilt quadrupole magnets are ready for shipment at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va. These rebuilt magnets will be shipped to Brookhaven National Lab to be a part of the Electron Storage Ring for the Electron-Ion Collider. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.
(Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
These magnets came from Argonne National Laboratory, which shipped the 30-year-old Advanced Photon Source (APS) magnets to Brookhaven and Jefferson Lab, where they will be re-purposed for use as part of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a state-of-the-art particle collider being led by those other two labs and that will be built at Brookhaven.
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Two “accelerators on a chip” made of silicon are mounted on a clear base. A shoebox-sized particle accelerator being developed under a $13.5 million Moore Foundation grant would use a series of these “accelerators on a chip” to boost the energy of electrons.
Read More: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-11-19-accelerator-on-a-c...
MEC laser engineer Eric Cunningham with the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) optical laser, upgraded in 2017 to be three times more powerful than before to reach even more extreme states of matter. (Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-08-15-newly-upgraded-las...
Two “accelerators on a chip” made of silicon are mounted on a clear base. A shoebox-sized particle accelerator being developed under a $13.5 million Moore Foundation grant would use a series of these “accelerators on a chip” to boost the energy of electrons.
Read More: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-11-19-accelerator-on-a-c...
Section of the MFX experimental station holding X-ray optics and beam diagnostics.
(Andy Freeberg/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
A section of SLAC's historic linear accelerator in the final stages of being disassembled. In 2016 SLAC removed the long-used accelerator equipment from sectors 0-10, the first third of the 2-mile-long linac, to make way for a cutting-edge superconducting accelerator upgrade that will serve as the backbone for the LCLS-II X-ray laser.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A “hair-raising experiment” dared passersby to touch a Van de Graaff generator, whose strong electric field would make their hair stand up. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
Top part of the TPC prototype. A high voltage will be applied to the metal grid to generate a strong electric field across the LZ detector.
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Three “accelerators on a chip” made of silicon are mounted on a clear base. A shoebox-sized particle accelerator being developed under a $13.5 million Moore Foundation grant would use a series of these “accelerators on a chip” to boost the energy of electrons.
Read More: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-11-19-accelerator-on-a-c...
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
The construction of MFX took less than six months. This image shows the empty hutch in August 2015.
(Andy Freeberg/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Installing RTM 21 of 21 to complete the 3.2GP array of CCDs. (Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Sébastien Boutet, LCLS department head responsible for MFX, searches the MFX hutch before letting the first X-rays into the experimental area.
(Andy Freeberg/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
Jeremy Mock (SUNY/Berkeley Lab) during the assembly of the TPC prototype at SLAC from parts manufactured at Berkeley Lab. (Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
SLAC’s Tomasz Biesiadzinski at the test stand used by the international LZ collaboration to test all aspects of the experiment, such as the high voltage, cooling, xenon purification and circulation systems, control systems, sensors and more.
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
MFX, located at the LCLS Far Experimental Hall, is the X-ray laser’s seventh experimental station and the first dedicated to biological experiments.
(Andy Freeberg/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
SLAC’s TJ Whitis at the test stand for the LZ experiment.
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
An international team of researchers has begun a 5-year effort to build a working particle accelerator the size of a shoebox based on an innovative technology known as “accelerator on a chip.”
Read More: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2015-11-19-accelerator-on-a-c...
In 2016, after 50 years of operation, one-third of SLAC's historic linear accelerator was carefully deconstructed and extracted to make way for a powerful upgrade to the LCLS X-ray laser. In total, 699 tons of materials–106 truckloads–were removed from the accelerator tunnel and gallery.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. (Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Tomasz Biesiadzinski (left, SLAC) and Jeremy Mock (SUNY/Berkeley Lab) during the installation of the TPC prototype at SLAC’s LZ test stand.
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
The team gathers for a group photo after the completion of the Sector 0-10 Equipment Relocation Project in mid-May, 2016. Some of the retrieved items will serve as spares for LCLS. Others will be redeployed at LCLS-II and the proposed FACET-II.
Read more: www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-01-31-taking-down-a-giant
(Christopher Smith/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)