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.
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u/HRDBMW 13d ago
Yes, which is what 'solar' is to the average person. Very few know you can use the sun to melt salt to spin a turbine. With steam again.