{"id":158677,"date":"2026-10-12T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158677"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:41:03","slug":"china-bets-on-molten-salt-and-co2-to-help-meet-its-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158677","title":{"rendered":"China bets on molten salt and CO2 to help meet its power needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has begun building the world\u2019s first utility-scale power plant combining two emerging technologies: supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage.<br \/>\nThe Ruitan project, under construction at a coal-fired power station in Yantai in eastern China\u2019s Shandong province, is intended to demonstrate how combining these technologies can reduce energy wastage and improve the stability of the electrical grid. Electricity produced when demand is low is stored&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3370584\/china-bets-molten-salt-and-co2-help-meet-its-power-needs?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has begun building the world\u2019s first utility-scale power plant combining two emerging technologies: supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) generation and large-scale molten salt energy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}