r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • Jul 16 '26

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/Wirezat Jul 16 '26

Yeah until you go really big and solar plants are mirrors focusing on a boiling tank again (although they boil salt tbf

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u/wonkey_monkey Expert Jul 16 '26

(although they boil salt tbf

They melt the salt for as a form of temporary heat storage.

Guess what they do with the heat from the salt when they actually want electricity...

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u/PentagonUnpadded Jul 16 '26

Is that what they use to season all the cooked birds?

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u/Pressure_Chief Jul 16 '26

Just Sam’s Club rotisserie as one of those is your sodium intake for the month.

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u/3eyedOdin Jul 17 '26

Not really, concentrated solar power has not been remotely competitive with normal photovoltaic solar panels. The photovoltaic prices have dropped so much that, it costs 5 times less than going with a Concentrated power plant for the same amount of energy.