Originally Posted by pittsburghracer
Originally Posted by crackedback
Originally Posted by MarkZ
Anyone ever check out molten salt solar installations? For generating power it's a stupid idea, but I wonder if the same principal could be used for desalination. Boil salt water with concentrated sun light. Not like we don't have deserts right on the ocean.

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Environmentalist are already pissed about that type of facility. Birds fly through the "hot zone" and get roasted in flight.



Kinda like getting killed by windmills, only different. Lol


Yep... everything has a potentially inherent hazard. Youtube, I think, has some videos of cooking birds in flight...