A new technology has just recently blossomed in Windsor Locks, Connecticut with Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies (UTX), regarding solar energy. Rocketdyne made a big hit back in the early '80s with a solar generator field of mirrors that focused a beam of concentrated energy on a vat of water and created steam for generating electricity.

The system model was provided a grant from the U.S Government for the development of a prototype. A new version of the same system, in collaboration with U.S Renewables Group, (i.e. Mr. Lee Bailey - Managing Director of US Renewables Group) is being funded this year by the U.S Energy Department utilizing molten salt or solid brine as the heating storage media. A combination mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate (Moten Salt), heated at 1200 deg F can retain it's heat 15 times longer than that of water. This new brine solid mix becomes liquid between 550 and 1200 deg F, and it is being touted as the latest "Renewable" heat transfer fluid. After heating the molten salt to over 1050 deg F, the liquid is stored in a hot tank and throttled into a steam generator, to produce high pressure steam; the steam is then passed through an electric turbine to produce electrical energy. The molten salt is then pumped back into the solar generator and re-generated for the next cycle. There is only a 1% degradation in the volume of molten malt lost to the environment, and the water used can be reclaimed from steam condensate discharged from the turbine for regenerating.