Solar solutions for the win
Clean energy entrepreneurs are making natural gas redundant
Truth bomb
The sun is hot.
About 27 million degrees Fahrenheit hot 🤯
Yet when we need to create heat and steam for industrial process, we still resort to burning natural gas and fossil fuels.
Fact check
More then 42% of the energy consumed by manufacturing is in the form of heat, not electricity. 🔥❌⚡️
In California alone, we burn 300 million gallons of gasoline each year to produce heat for the food processing sector alone.
So why don’t we use heat from the sun and avoid burning all those fossil fuels?
Well now we can…
Solution
Enter Sunvapor. Californian clean energy entrepreneurs with a solution.
A uniquely designed solar “parabolic trough collector”, which harnesses solar thermal energy to create steam on an industrial scale. No more fossil fuels.
And what exactly is a solar parabolic trough collector..?
Glad you asked…it’s one of these high tech curvy solar things which concentrates solar thermal energy. 🔅🔎🔆🔥
And why do we need them again?
The industrial sector consumes over half of the world’s energy.
Three-quarters of this energy is used in process heating applications like food pasteurizing and chemical refining.
ATM, very little of this heat comes from renewable sources, resulting in significant greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Bad news.
Sunvapor’s solution to this problem will utilize solar power to generate low-cost solar steam without burning fossil fuels. 🌞🌪💵❌😷
#Winning
And how do they beat natural gas?
Sunvapor’s technology is low-cost, high performance and uses a free and infinitely renewable energy source. 🌞
Solar collector technology can now produce the steam temperatures and pressures needed for industrial processing and compete on price with natural gas.
It’s just another example of cheap, clean and renewable solar energy FTW.
With seed funding from the California Clean Energy Fund, Sunvapor are rolling out their first project with at a California pistachio farm!
The California Clean Energy Fund is here to help entrepreneurs like Sunvapor. They are supporting entrepreneurs to scale the groundbreaking ideas that will fast track our transition to 100% clean energy.
Sunvapor is one of 26 seedlings from the CalSEED program, a clean energy entrepreneur initiative which provides funding, mentorship and support to bring clean energy innovations to market.
Shine on! 🌅
