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CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved

Posted by timothy on from the high-on-sodium dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This year we've seen molten salt power plants start to pick up steam around the world, and now the technology is heating up stateside — California just approved its first molten salt energy plant. Designed by SolarReserve, the plant uses heliostats to focus thermal energy on a power tower filled with salt, which is able to reach very high temperatures (over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit) and can hold heat for an extraordinary length of time. Heat from this reserve of molten salt can then be pumped through a steam generator to provide on-demand energy long after the sun has set."

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  1. TOO MANY PUNS!!! by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 2, Funny

    We get it already, heat jokes. Knock it off!

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    1. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by clone52431 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It took me 4 reads just to find the two puns that you appear to be so steamed over.

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    2. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yep, even I get annoyed by Slashdot summaries pretty often, but this one didn't even trip my detector. Had to go over carefully to see the two at the beginning. Sorry, lower your sensitivity, because you're making us intolerants look tolerant in comparison!

    3. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by beakerMeep · · Score: 3, Funny

      Way to pour salt on his wound.

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    4. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Funny

      Way to pour salt on his wound.

      Careful, you'll make him hot under the collar. ;-)

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    5. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by clone52431 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You RTFA? I’m sorry, but I’ll have to take that claim with a grain of salt.

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    6. Re:TOO MANY PUNS!!! by angrytuna · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tell ya, if I had a NaCl for every pun on here...

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  2. Really really bad idea by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing from or controlled by Computer Associates should be trusted with warm water, much less molten salt.

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  3. They are going lend some salt too. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny

    Any excess salt left over after building the plant will be given to Gawker to help them improve their salted password hashes.

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  4. Re:It's a tower? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, lord knows the solar energy people don't want to literally make a pillar of salt.

    It would drive the Fundies nuts, that they could then equate solar energy with Sodom and Gomorrah.

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  5. Answer: by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    What happens when a bird flies too near to the tower?

    A republican will pretend to care about the environment long enough to sound like a complete asshole.

  6. Re:Fahrenheit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    640K ought to be enough for anybody

  7. Re:It's a tower? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    they could then equate solar energy with Sodom and Gomorrah.

    In this case, more likely Sodium and Gomorrah