Investors say that solar thermal plants like the one being built in Chile's Atacama Desert can transform the renewable industry and compete with any type of power plant in the world.
Old tech wins the day.
A metallic salt with a low melt point is used to take advantage of the suns potential during night hours because it retains heat long enough to be used until the sun rises again to bring it back up to its maximum temperature.
Basically this is a really big water heater tank connected to a really big boiler.
Scale is everything on this project...
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