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Storing Heat to Make Solar Electricity All the Time 贮存热量——实现全天候太阳能发电 How to store energy as heat cheaply represents a big challenge for solar power. 如何低成本贮存热能是太阳能产业面临的巨大挑战。 At Germany’s aerospace agency, the next frontier is capturing the sun here on Earth and keeping it on tap. 德国航空航天局下一个In a 4-year-old glass and steel building near the Cologne-Bonn Airport, researchers at the German Aerospace Center DLR , Germany’s equivalent of NASA, are working on new ways to produce more heat in order to smooth over intermittency, one of the biggest drawbacks of solar power on the grid. 在科隆波恩机场，有一栋使用了4年的建筑，它采用预制钢和玻璃组件而建。德国航空航天中心（缩写为DLR,号称德国的NASA）的研究人员们正在研究产生更多热量的新方法来解决发电间歇性问题。太阳能电网的其中一个弊端就是发电间歇性。 “The focus of this organization is to test ideas as close as possible,” said Christos Agrafiotis, a researcher in solar chemical engineering at DLR. 克里斯托斯﹒阿格拉菲奥缇斯德国航空航天中心With global solar capacity surging over 200 gigawatts, solar energy is maturing into its technological adolescence. However, it has to start pulling its own weight on the grid instead of relying on elder power sources to bail it out on cloudy days and to step in once the sun sets. 全球太阳能发电量涨幅超过200千兆瓦，这表明太阳能青春期。然而，不得不开始Storing solar energy is one way to make power from the sun, especially as utilities to accommodate photovoltaic panels distributed across rooftops . 贮存太阳能是从太阳获取能量的一种方式，特别是屋顶。But battery technology isn’t up to the job just yet in terms of cost and performance to shift solar power across all hours. To keep the electrons flowing even when the sun isn’t shining, many researchers are increasingly looking for better ways to capture and store thermal energy, in concentrating solar plants as well as independent storage systems on the grid. 但就全天候转换太阳能的成本和性能而言，电池板技术还没有充分发挥其效用。甚至为了在没有太阳的前提下也能发电，许多研究人员都在致力于研究更好的收集及贮存太阳能的方式，并把目光聚焦在太阳能电厂和电网独立贮存系统上。 Concentrating solar plants do have a higher levelized cost of energy compared with photovoltaics, said Thomas Bauer, team leader for thermal process technology at DLR,