Via Juan Cole comes news of a solar generator operating 24 hours a day.
What are we to make of this stupefying advance from an Israeli company, Brenmiller Energy? How do they do it?
Briefly, their solar generators heat water to steam, use some to drive generators in daylight, and store the rest of the steam underground in a cement-like material, finally use the stored steam to power electric generators during the night. You Tube Description.
I am skeptical. Not only does this scheme sound like it comes from a freshman engineering student, but all the engineers who've looked at solar generation have missed the boat, they've missed the forest for the trees.
So, I googled Brenmiller Energy. Everything I saw was either a press release from Brenmiller or a media story apparently based on a press release.
Just as I go to Juan Cole for analysis of the Mid-East, so do I go to Clean Technica for green energy news. Nothing there.
24-hour solar power would be wonderful. As of today, improbable.