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Solar panels now power pumps used by salt farmers in India’s western Gujarat state, replacing diesel machines and providing them with increased profits and a better way of life.

As he raked his large salt pan, gathering the salt crystals to one side, he listed what his solar panels have brought the family — a new brick house in their village, a new tractor, a motorcycle.

The science pros at TKOR explain how salt crystals form from water through the process of boiling the ocean.

Direct evidence of complex prebiotic chemistry from a water-rich world in the outer solar system is provided by the 4.5-billion-year-old halite crystals hosted in the Zag and Monahans (1998) ...

New ultra-thin solar panels are 1,000 times more effective than standard panels thanks to a breakthrough crystal design.

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