Curved, trough-shaped reflectors concentrate solar energy and direct it onto a receiver pipe in this arrangement. In a steam ...

The system featured a solar-thermal collector, a thermal storage tank, an air-source heat pump, a sand-filled thermal storage floor, and water pumps.

At the heart of it, this is a new, multi-dimensional take on a simple heat pipe. These sealed metal tubes take advantage of phase changes in a trapped fluid to rapidly shift thermal energy.

In the new study, Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha and his colleagues explored the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role. “Solar heat drives atmospheric ...

The system was presented in the study “Empirical investigation of solar photovoltaic-thermal collectors for heat pump integration,” published in Applied Thermal Engineering. Another research ...