Steam & Salt

Nevada has a new salt based solar thermal power plant. Sure that sounds like an unlikely source of energy, but the article does a nice job explaining how this salt energy works. The salts they use can be stored at high temperature than water, when the salt is stored it is constantly boiling, with little to no evaporation. They then use the already boiling salt and run it through pipes in a water basin that cause the steam to turn the turbine.

Energy source have been focused towards; solar, wind, biomass, fossil fuels and hydro-electric, it is odd to think that research has reach once again for an earth resource. After the use of fossil fuels and the huge amount of people who have started to oppose them. This salt technology blows my mind, to think something as simple and salt can be used to create a huge amount of energy once it has been heated. With these ideas like how long will be until we have another racial new power idea like this.

Article found in this blog can be found at:Casey, Tina. "CleanTechnica." CleanTechnica. Cleantechnica 2012, 4 Apr. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.

Photographic found in this blog can be found at: http://www.napocor.gov.ph/generations/MYWEB/images/Plant%20Pics/Masinloc.jpg