[Daus]

The focused sunlight would heat water into steam. That steam, in turn, would drive the turbines whose spinning creates alternating-current electricity.

Do they recover the steam back to water? If not, how do you get that water in the middle of desert?

[calcowgirl]

Well, first you get the land free — loaned from the BLM. Then you have federal and state government invest in “infrastructure” on your behalf. Perhaps call it “stimulus” or “investment” and say that it “creates jobs.”

See? It’s easy if you have the right people controlling the law and a big purse of taxpayer dollars.

[hinckley buzzard]

Do they recover the steam back to water? If not, how do you get that water in the middle of desert?

It's a closed loop system. No significant loss to the outside atmosphere.