There is actually a Solar Power Generation system were a solar collector uses sunlight to melt salt which then circulates through pipes to a place were it heats up water to boiling and that steam then goes through a turbine thus generating electricity.

However to reach those temperatures a simple panel isn't enough so what you have is a ton of mirrors over a large area all focusing the sunlight on a central tower were the salt-melting happens.

Here is an example.

By the way, this stuff actually has benefits over solar such as the ability to generate power at night (basically you don't extract all the heat from the molten salt during the day and just keep using it to boil water to feed the steam turbine during the night), plus it's a bit more efficient than solar panels and like solar panels it's also improving, throught things like using different salts.

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but it's important to understand how it really works:

• particles from the sun hit the solar panel
• the panel accelerates those particles, which creates fissile material
• the fissile material is the used in a traditional nuclear reactor
• the nuclear reaction finally heats water

(these are solar thermic power plants, their panels are black and usually assisted by mirrors leading to a similar look)

Where is the shitpost, solar panels do work by heating up water, unlike photovoltaics.

Solar panels are good to get a baseline amount of heated water for your home.

CCGT - A gas powered jet engine but instead of spinning to produce thrust it spins to produce electricity with a turbine. Then the hot exhaust is used to boil water to make steam to spin a turbine.

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Appart from using solar power to melt salt as a energy storage solution, you also have water cooled solar panels that store that heat as warm water.

It's always a steam turbine?
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I think you forgot the oil powered generator under the boiling water.

Can you connect that to ai data center that can generate an image of Trump with Clinton?

If only we could figure out a way to harness the power of the Giant Fan on the other side of the sun.

Lotta loss in that system.

It seems like we could make this a lot more efficient by using pistons and having the sunlight push the pistons, turning a generator.

Just like modded Minecraft.