Why it's incredible: The salt pans look like a colorful patchwork quilt from above. Walvis Bay is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Namibia that is home to an enormous sea salt production plant.

has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our Solar System. A team of researchers has found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu ...

solar salt mining is not an expensive exercise. Most of the work is in the set-up, which involves digging a number of large shallow ponds. "So each day there's two tides and when we get those high ...

That’s what led [TomGoff] to build his own solar pond fountain. This build features a lot of creative reuse of materials [TomGoff] already had on hand, like the end of a cable reel for the ...

Huadian Group and PowerChina have activated what they describe as China’s largest solar-storage project on salt-alkali tidal flats. The project in Laizhou, Shandong province, spans 72 square km.