At 30 Years Young, the Future Is Bright for NREL's High-Flux Solar Furnace
At 30 Years Young, the Future Is Bright for NREL's High-Flux Solar Furnace Dec. 14, 2020 With the breakneck speed of innovation at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the laboratory's High-Flux Solar Furnace (HFSF) is all the more remarkable for continuously facilitating envelope-pushing research since 1989. Like some superhero-comic contraption, the furnace can deliver the heat of 2,500 suns to melt a hole through solid steel in less than a minute. It has been used to destroy ...
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