Posted on 06/27/2008 12:27:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
BUREAU TO STUDY IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT DENVER - Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies the environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years. Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. Solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005. They center on the companies' desires to lease public land to build solar plants, then sell the energy to utilities. According to the bureau, the applications, which cover more than 1 million acres, are for projects that have the potential to power more than 20 million homes. But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating. "This could completely stunt the growth of the industry," said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto. The manager of the bureau's environmental impact study, Linda Resseguie, said many factors must be considered when deciding whether to allow solar projects on the scale being proposed, among them the Advertisement impact of construction and transmission lines on native vegetation and wildlife.
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I think it would be nice to create some artificial shade "trees" for those critters. I'd bet they would love the cool shelter. In the harsh winter (elev 6000'), the structures could provide shelter from storms. How can that be "bad" for anyone? see tagline!
That’s really funny.
It is since we "lawyered up."
Nest will be the realization that extracting energy from the wind effects the climate engine and further screws things up.
NUCLEAR IS TH ONLY ANSWER
Once again, the government is standing in the way of limitless, cheap, clean energy. And why? In order to give more jobs to bureaucrats and lawyers who make no positive contribution to society.
They’ve been telling us that solar is the only way to go, so now they should rubber stamp this.
Works for me.
The puppet masters have lots of nuclear scheduled.
Probably the sequence will be . . .
—attack iran
—Jihadis light off nukes in 7 or so USA cities.
—China, Russia, NKorea, Venezuela, Mexico, Lybia . . . attack CONUS . . . probably by subs off our shores, first.
And the grand END TIMES festivities will have begun . . . with a period of . . . globalists led ‘peace’ implemented shortly thereafter the initial festivities . . . coercing the planet into the global government to end the mayhem, death etc. . . but only after a maximum amount of death has been achieved for the exchanges scheduled . . .
What a time to be alive.
This is what I've been saying for years. Get the math out and show the people how foolish this crap really is. If we completely covered every square ft of Nevada, we couldn't run Reno and Las Vegas with it. What would it do to the environment to cover that much land. These people act like you can put a couple of collectors on the roof and run your house. You might run a couple of light bulbs and a fan or two, but forget getting 30 amps. Putting the mirror thermal steam generators might do some good, but what about the water needed? What about the birds that fly through the beam? On and on. How many birds would die in a wind farm the size of Arizona? How many seagulls and pelicans would die off shore? There is no replacement right now for oil, period!!
I wish someone with credibility would get on TV with maps and charts and show the math involved here. The American public is so dumb they can't even imagine the problem. They are now talking about releasing the SPR to help! Jeeeezzz!
It is since we "lawyered up."
Nuclear plants have no such limitations. They crank out the juice, day or night, wind or calm, warm or cold. The only time they are down is for refueling (at for least LWR plants), and you can plan ahead for that. You can plan ahead for night, too, but that happens once a day. Nuclear plant refueling occurs every two years. And you can't plan ahead for cloudy days or calm days. Those are going to happen whenever Mother Nature decides, not something we can dictate.
i was thinking they thought it would use up the sun and then we would be thrust into an ice age and we all know that can’t happen because it would ruin the global warming theory.
Anybody know the btu rating of an environmentalist?
Bureaucratic double speak for 5 to 10 years of studies.
After the studies are completed The Sierra Club's lawsuits will take another 5 years or more.
Bureaucratic Math: 5 + 5 = 2
This sounds like it is only on public lands. If someone wanted to build a plant on his own land, would the Feds have the power to delay it for the same reasons?
I’m gonna ping SirKit to respond to you. He’s doing the math right now.
No, it's more that the RIAA has acquired rights to all the photons.
To a certain extent, but the states get involved here, so the builder has to jump thru more hoops. The impact studies are paid for by the builder and done by non government types, so they go along faster...............
Probably purty low since they are vegans.............
Where did you get 2 years ? I don’t see any timeframe in the article.
Meanwhile we COULD get 10 BILLION BARRELS of oil from a footprint the size of a major airport from ANWAR.
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