A Groundbreaking Power-Generating System Delivers Electricity to an Air Force Base Electrical Grid

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Takeaways:

  • Sandia National Laboratories have used heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity.
  • This is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure that it behaves like both a liquid and a gas and is not released as a greenhouse gas.
  • This year, the team managed to heat it up to 600 degrees Fahrenheit, generating 10 kilowatts of power.

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