Several geothermal plants on the southeastern shore of the California’s inland and saline Salton Sea have reliably been producing power for 30 years. A new 50 MW plant should be online by next February.
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Aquafornia “By substituting some of the crops that are more water intensive for algae, that water can be sent into the Salton Sea and the collapse of the habitat from increased salinity might be thwarted,” said Neal Driscoll, professor of geology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [...] Salton Sea It’s baking hot in the summer at the Salton Sea, a large inland salt water lake in California that often smells of dead fish. It is a genuinely weird and strange place. But a mining company thinks they might be able to extract lithium, as well as other elements, from geothermal wells [...] Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a seriously weird place. This enormous inland saline lake in the southern California desert sits below sea level directly on the San Andreas Fault. It was formed in modern times when an aqueduct failed in 1905, flooding the area. Since the water can not drain, the salinity builds [...] |  | ||||
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