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CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved
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."
It took me 4 reads just to find the two puns that you appear to be so steamed over.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
Nothing from or controlled by Computer Associates should be trusted with warm water, much less molten salt.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
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.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
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.
I tell ya, if I had a NaCl for every pun on here...
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