{"id":190083,"date":"2024-05-25T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/smelting-steel-with-sunlight-new-solar-trap-tech-could-help-decarbonize-industrial-heat"},"modified":"2024-05-25T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:32:10","slug":"smelting-steel-with-sunlight-new-solar-trap-tech-could-help-decarbonize-industrial-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/smelting-steel-with-sunlight-new-solar-trap-tech-could-help-decarbonize-industrial-heat","title":{"rendered":"Smelting Steel With Sunlight: New Solar Trap Tech Could Help Decarbonize Industrial Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smelting-steel-with-sunlight-new-solar-trap-tech-could-help-decarbonize-industrial-heat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/02\/02\/these-technologies-could-axe-85-of-co2-emissions-from-heavy-industry\/\">hardest sectors to decarbonize<\/a> are industries that require high temperatures like <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/08\/04\/the-race-to-remake-the-2-5-trillion-steel-industry-with-green-steel\/\">steel smelting<\/a> and cement production. A new approach uses a synthetic quartz solar trap to generate temperatures of over 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit)\u2014hot enough for a host of carbon-intensive industries.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the focus on the climate fight has been on cleaning up the electric grid and transportation, a surprisingly large amount of fossil fuel usage goes into industrial heat. As much as 25 percent of global energy consumption goes towards manufacturing glass, steel, and cement.<\/p>\n<p>Electrifying these processes is challenging because it\u2019s difficult to reach the high temperatures required. Solar receivers, which use thousands of sun-tracking mirrors to concentrate energy from the sun, have shown promise as they can hit temperatures of 3,000 C. But they\u2019re very inefficient when processes require temperatures over 1,000 C because much of the energy is radiated back out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the hardest sectors to decarbonize are industries that require high temperatures like steel smelting and cement production. A new approach uses a synthetic quartz solar trap to generate temperatures of over 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit)\u2014hot enough for a host of carbon-intensive industries. While most of the focus on the climate fight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}