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DescriptionSalinity Gradient Solar Ponds have a layer of saltier water near the bottom to reduce convection and cooling to the atmosphere. This lets them reach higher temperatures, and store more heat for other uses. (Flat) land, water, and salt are needed to build one of these structures combining efficient solar energy collection and storage.

Solar pond - Description, (dis)advantages, efficiency, development, and external links from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. User may contribute.
Thermal behaviour of salt gradient solar ponds - Abstract of paper describing numerical model. Link to pdf of full paper requires purchase to function.

Media publications

Clouds gather over solar pond technology - Indian newspaper article testifies that the Bhuj solar pond payback period worked to be less than five years, but operation stopped with closure of the customer industry. (Published 2000-08-14 00:00:00)

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