"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Upper class NIMBY twits in Marin County, where they have a simply wonderful plan buying renewable energy produced elsewhere, voted down a solar project in their own county because someone might have to look at those icky photovoltaic panels. Oh…
The massive Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station in California will be turned on soon. It will be the biggest solar thermal plant ever, generating power for 140,000 homes, with nearly 200,000 mirrors on 3,500 acres. Solar thermal reflects the heat…
Many proposed solar plants are on BLM land, yet would become “private industrial zones” where the public can’t go. In addition, these huge solar power farms would require clearing thousands of acres of land with unpredictable but certainly deleterious impact…
Brightsource has cancelled plans for a ginormous solar thermal plant on 4,000 acres of desert near Blythe CA, citing costs. A similar plant in Inyo County has been suspended. The Calico Solar Project in the Mojave has also been cancelled,…
Building ginormous solar farms in remote desert areas and sending the power hundreds of miles to cities maybe isn’t such a good idea after all. The Calico Solar Project in California has been cancelled after the developer cited “changed market…