solar pond

American  

noun

1. a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.

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Example Sentences

What was remarkable about the event �and what confounded the skeptics �was the fact that the electricity for the lights was generated not by a conventional or nuclear power plant, but by a shallow, briny pool of water�a solar pond.

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In a solar pond, these currents are suppressed by dissolving salt near the bottom of the pond.

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Physicist Harry Tabor, chief architect of Israel's solar pond program, notes, for instance, that surfaces of large solar ponds must be crisscrossed with plastic baffles.

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