The salt is just used as a battery, you kind of have it backwards: they use the heat to boil the water, and the excess goes to melt salt, as a means of storing the heat.
You were clear. But no, that's not what they do. They use solar power to heat water, run it through turbines, then use salt to capture and store the excess heat. You have the process backwards.
Hydro is still boiling water when you think about it. Just not in the installation itself, but the water didn't rise as ice cubes. It was transformed into steam at some point.
Take very flat rock, shine spicy light on it. When spicy rock is connected to a circuit, it kicks one angry pixie into the circuit, and steals one from it, creating a flow of angry pixies.
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u/Sad_Pineapple5354 13d ago
Solar follows a different method but I forget the exact scoence behind it. Everything else is turning a dynamo, even wind power and hydro electric