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🔆 Molten-Salt Storage: Solar Tower Dispatch Through Day and Night (2D)

Side view of a solar tower plant with a field of mirrors, a receiver, a cold and a hot molten-salt tank and a steam turbine, running for 48 hours from midnight. Change the mirror area, the turbine rating, the storage size, the day of the year, the clearness of the air and the cloudiness to see how stored heat keeps the turbine going after sunset. Energy balance, salt inventory, solar geometry and a time-step test are checked numerically, with four in-page numerical checks.

Optics & Light2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 3D version
Molten-Salt Storage: Solar Tower Dispatch Through Day and Night (2D) ↗ Open standalone
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Side view of a solar tower plant with a field of mirrors, a receiver, a cold and a hot molten-salt tank and a steam turbine, running for 48 hours from midnight. Change the mirror area, the turbine rating, the storage size, the day of the year, the clearness of the air and the cloudiness to see how stored heat keeps the turbine going after sunset. Energy balance, salt inventory, solar geometry and a time-step test are checked numerically, with four in-page numerical checks.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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