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Originally Posted by Muta
That's cool. That doesn't mean those types of energy companies can't have offices here. Regardless of where they build and test their infrastructure, we should be attracting energy innovation companies like that, regardless.
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We do, for areas that are relevant to Alberta's resources or expertise. Such as hydrogen from the oil sands:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alb...tion-1.5290297
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Also, does that information you linked to have anything to do with Heliogen and their product? Is that their infrastructure?
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They're based on the same principles, except less challenging due to lower temperatures. And Heliogen provides few details beyond temperature, such as the amount of actual available energy. 1000+C temperatures can be useful, but there's be demonstrations of even higher temperatures from 50 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace
The question is whether it can scale up to be actual useful. Another issue is that the potential big industrial users like steel mills, aren't located in the desert.