"Illustration of the experimental thermal trap. It consists of a quartz rod (inside) and a ceramic absorber (outside). Solar radiation enters at the front, heat is generated in the rear area. Credit: Casati E et al. Device 2024, edited" (ScitechDaily, Harnessing the Sun: Innovative Thermal Trap Reaches Over 1000 °C Using Sunlight)
When solar light travels in the tube, the outcoming heat will increase the tube's outer shell's temperature. When sunlight travels in the channel in the hollow tube, the infrared radiation from the walls increases its temperature.
The heat trap can make it possible to create effective solar generators.
The new thermal trap can be an innovation for the steel industry. That system can decrease the steel industry's pollution. And it can make the solar-powered blast furnaces possible. However, the new thermal trap can offer the possibility to create effective power plants. The thermal trap can used to replace the fossil fuels on sunny days in the power plants. It can offer the choice to use solar power in the electric plant's boilers.
The solar generator is the tool where sunlight heats the liquid. And then the system drives this high-temperature and high-pressure vapor into the turbogenerators.
The heat trap is connected to the regular power plant's turbines. And it can boil water. The system can boil water in a closed cycle. That raises the pressure in the tubes. That system can also rotate turbines, and if that heat trap can be compact, it can used in ships and power plants.
The reason why we don't use steam turbines in the ships is that they are not economical. But if the steam turbines get their steam from systems that boil water using sunlight. That thing makes them ecological and economical to use. The sunlight using vaporization systems does not create emissions. And the turbines make ships very fast.
The high-temperature vapor with 500-1000 degrees Celsius can give a very good pressure for steam turbines. That thing can used in ships and power plants. So the next-generation ships can use solar energy on sunny days. And maybe the steam turbines are making a comeback. When the system creates vapor using solar energy. That doesn't cause fuel costs.
The heat trap can also make it possible to create a rocket engine, that uses sunlight to expand the propellant. The heat trap will heat the hydrogen or some other gas, that will travel back from the exhaust tube. And that thing makes an effective rocket system for traveling inside the asteroid belt.
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