Massive solar panels north of Waikoloa Village

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more info on the water use

Concentrating solar plants in the Mojave Desert have brought up issues of water use, because concentrating solar power plants with wet-cooling systems have high water-consumption intensities compared to other types of electric power plants; only fossil-fuel plants with carbon capture and storage may have higher water intensities.[42] A 2013 study comparing various sources of electricity found that the median water consumption during operations of concentrating solar power plants with wet cooling was 810 gal/MWhr for power tower plants and 890 gal/MWhr for trough plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_powe...ave_Desert

Makes sense then, but why wouldn't they have used a closed loop system to avoid losing all that water (presumably steam) when there is this company called ORMAT that has this closed loop generating system they named OEC...