Scientists in Sweden might have found a new way to store solar energy. Image source: Shutterstock (#225090295)
A team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has demonstrated efficient solar energy storage in liquid form. Using an organic compound called norbornadiene, they can transport energy and release it as heat on demand. ‘Combining the chemical energy storage with water heating solar panels enables a conversion of more than 80 percent of the incoming sunlight,’ Professor Kasper Moth-Poulsen, head of the team, says.
The project is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
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