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Uncommon card · Science
Concentrated solar power, an Uncommon card
Concentrated solar power, also called concentrating solar power or concentrated solar thermal, involves systems that collect solar heat for multiple purposes like cooking, desalination, or the generation of electric solar power, by using mirrors to concentrate a large area of sunlight toward a receiver.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 89,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Electricity is generated when the concentrated light is converted to heat, which drives a heat engine, either Stirling engine or a steam turbine as in fossil thermal power stations, via an electrical power generator, or powers a thermochemical reaction.
- In combination with thermal energy storage, concentrated solar power can produce electricity also during the night, to compete against the combination of battery energy storage systems fed by photovoltaics, the predominant solar power technology, with about 1 terawatt of global installed nameplate capacity in 2022.
- By comparison, as of 2021, global installed capacity was less than 1% as concentrated solar power stood at only 6.8 GW.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Concentrated solar power article was read about 89,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Concentrated solar power (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Amble, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
