Solar finds it hard to squeeze water from desert-(oh ya gotta read this)

business week ^ | April 18, 2009, 3 | By RITA BEAMISH

[Flavius]

A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource -- sunshine -- is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess over the region's rarest resource: water.

Water is the cooling agent for what traditionally has been the most cost-efficient type of large-scale solar plants. To some solar companies answering Washington's push for renewable energy on vast government lands, it's also an environmental thorn. The unusual collision pits natural resources protections against President Barack Obama's plans to produce more environmentally friendly energy.

[knarf]

""Water is a big concern and the desert tortoise is a major concern, and the amount of site preparation is a concern," said Linda Resseguie, a BLM project manager."

Why would companies hire someone that is NOT looking out for its best interest?

THAT'S the tea party that should be held ... Citizens, yes ... but more importantly, the major corporations that say NO to government regulations that make business expensive, difficult or impossible.

THOSE are the taxes that really count.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[AnOldCowhand]

What I find amazing is that, while being religiously wed to Evolutionism, the ecofacists actually want to arrest evolution at its current state.

[AnOldCowhand]

Water is easy. Barry will hit a rock with his staff.

I thought his gig was turning it into wine.