[cicero2k]

So they can't even build a solar power plant in California. NIMBY rules. Care to drill offshore anyone?

[pallis]

Offshore oil rigs enhance the ocean view at night with all the glittering lights. Towering windmills for mile after mile destroy the country side.

[G Larry]

Ya?
Well he better tell Feinstein and her green friends to get outta the way of that 500MW Solar facility in Mojave Desert!

[SumProVita]

Lol! These people have no functioning neurons anymore.

[tbpiper]

"requires a third of the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020"

I remember reading about Japanese fire brigades in the 30's and 40's where someone bearing the brigade standard would rush towards the flames and stand at a point where the fire would be stopped. Often these standard bearers were subsequently memorialized.

[Pontiac]

"Everybody wanted to step up the pace in order to capture these federal stimulus dollars and to leverage the private investment from banks and from other kinds of investment," he says.

But time is running out — to qualify, projects must break ground before the end of this year.

A textbook example how the socialist federal incentives system distorts the marketplace.

Without federal dollars a project like this would never be proposed because it could never financially compete with conventional unsubsidized power producers.

So these “businessmen” (their main business is living off the public treasury) have an artificial deadline to start a project imposed by the federal stimulus program.

[BwanaNdege]

They say that this is “one of the nation’s biggest solar facilities of its kind” and will supply electricity to “about 120,000 homes”.

Hmmmmmm. 36 million people in California. Figure 4 people per “home”. means about 9 million “homes”. 120k homes powered for each of these type projects means that they will need 25 more like this to supply “a third of the state’s electricity”.

And they are having trouble getting permits & greenie approval for just this one?

Ain’t gonna happen!

Especially after the friends of the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard start up their lawsuits.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Solar is great, until the sun goes down. Anybody see a battery big enough to “store” it for the Rainy Days and Nights?

[Avid Coug]

It just doesn’t matter. No matter what the energy source may be, enviromentalists will try to block everything.

[NonValueAdded]

"It would be impossible to ask the animals living on the floor to just move," [organic egg farmer] Williams says.

[Nervous Tick]

California's gone BANANA!

Build

Absolutely

Nothing

Anywhere

Near

Anyone