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Re: Solar Heliostat System with Molten Salt Bath, and Liquid CO2 Method.

Modular & Scalable Molten Salt Plant Design

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Commercializing Solar Power with Molten Salt[/url]

The total solar energy flux intercepted by the earth on any particular day is 4.2 X 1018 Watthours or 1.5 X 1022 Joules (or 6.26 X 1020 Joules per hour ). This is equivalent to burning 360 billion tons of oil ( toe ) per day or 15 Billion toe per hour.

In fact the world’s total energy consumption of all forms in the year 2000 was only 4.24 X 1020 Joules. In year 2005 it was 10,537 Mtoe (Source BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006).

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