A Solar Plant That's Worth Its Salt

Los Angeles Times - Top News, Los Angeles Times
Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:00am

The mineral is a key part of a Santa Monica firm's proposed alternative energy project in the desert. The technology was proved workable in a pilot project near Barstow in the 1990s. Just past Barstow on Interstate 15, Las Vegas-bound travelers can eye a tower resembling a lighthouse rising out of the desert encircled by more than 1,800 mirrors the size of billboards.

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