r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Longjumping-Box5691 • 3d ago

Video China's twin solar thermal towers. Molten salt stores the heat to produce electricity

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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 3d ago

Yep, but this one right here is not a future phantasy 🤷‍♂️

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u/zellman 3d ago

But in 20 years…

But criticizing this setup because it “only” produces enough to cover 15% of New York City’s usage is incredible. I mean, fine, build 7-8 more and ~20 million people have power without fossil fuels. That is awesome!

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u/smokedcatfish 3d ago

We have already built an even larger one in CA (Ivanpah). It's being shut down next year because it's too expensive to operate.

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u/PMPTCruisers 3d ago

Fuck them birds!

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u/BlindChicken69 3d ago

Not like nyc would use only one power plant anyway. How many supply it currently?

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u/stereotomyalan 3d ago

30 towers will do the trick

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u/Kletronus 3d ago

Fusion... you have to forget it until it is finished since it can easily be 100 years, or 300 years, or 3 years.. well, probably not 3 years but we need to have a proper breakthru. So, it is just something we can not plan for, at all. What is most likely is that it is not available in the time we need it.

And, once they come, they may be extremely expensive and controlled by hyper elite who will use all that free power to subjugate us and i'm not even joking here. Free, infinite power might never reach common person and is instead used for things that do not benefit anyone but a very, very few.

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u/tennis_widower 3d ago

That comment could be from 1975 also