Posted on 09/01/2010 10:24:35 AM PDT by epithermal
ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev.
Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to developers, vast tracts still sit idle.
An Associated Press examination of U.S. Bureau of Land Management records and interviews with agency officials shows that the BLM operated a first-come, first-served leasing system that quickly overwhelmed its small staff and enabled companies, regardless of solar industry experience, to squat on land without any real plans to develop it.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
As Spain found out, building in dusty areas requires lots of water to clean the solar mirror or panel.
Well, we don’t want them to rush into anything.
After all, there may be an even GREENER technology coming down the ‘pike just any ole day, now.
Yep, it’s coming.
A greener technology.
(crickets)
And no permits to drill for water because they just may hit oil?.
Would this have anything to do with the fact that solar is not yet economically feasible?
Actually, it's due to the greenies. There's a project around here that keeps getting stalled due to three complaints from the greenies:
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