Solar Power Salt Pond Collection, 1978-1982.

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Solar Power Salt Pond Collection, 1978-1982.

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The collection includes preliminary research documentation from Ormat Turbines, the Benham Group under JPL sub-contract and the City of Davis, California on development studies of solar salt ponds. Included are JPL interoffice publications, input data for solar systems and chemical heat pipes and a study of a feasibility of a solar salt pond facility, all dating from 1978 through 1982. The primary goals of the solar pond power project with Benham-Blair and Affiliates, Inc. were to assess land availability and land values for solar pond applications throughout the United States. This constitutes one portion of an overall "U. S. Solar Pond Regional Applicability Study" that was developed by JPL in cooperation with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). There are a number of factors that JPL considered in evaluating the applicability of solar pond technology across the United States. That included technical, economic, environmental, institutional, and market sector considerations. Technical sub-factors included an evaluation of land, water, insolation, climate, geology, hydrology, design, performance, components, construction, operations and maintenance. Should be noted, however, that for some of the conditions no conclusive boundaries were given either because their effect on the feasibility of the Solar Power Pond Plant was minimal or because the limits on such conditions are highly dependent on other conditions.

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