Another big waste of money
Who gets subsidized for this?
I understand that you can get freshly incinerated endangered and protected migratory fowl in the gift shop.
So if the taxpayers fund it, electricity costs should drop dramatically once the initial construction costs are paid off right?.../s
This is the bird killing plant, isn’t it?
Hopefully, citizens will be allowed to keep any roasted birds that fall into their yards.
I love the smell of boondoggle in the morning...
If this thing goes belly up, we taxpayers are on the hook.
Reason did an amazing expose of the incredible regulatory and law-enforcement pressures being brought to bear on those independence-minded desert dwellers out there.
Ya know, the people with cheap houses with a beat-up freezer out back, and a chevy up on blocks..?
The code-enforcement cops show up, all nice at first, and then they CONDEMN the property for any measure of silly code violations they conjure up —could be ANYTHING.
Some kind of spooky project to kick people off their property, a lot like the cattle-ranch fiasco in Southern Nevada about a year ago.
Really amazing Big Brother shenanigans.
People think it has something to do with the stupid Bullet-Train project, maybe.
But I see maybe it has more to do with Big Bro & the Commie Chinese.
According to the agency, the Bureau of Land Management worked with Desert Sunlight and other groups to reduce the project's size from a proposed 19,000 acres. The agency said it required Desert Sunlight to provide funds for more than 7,500 acres of habitat for desert tortoises and other sensitive species to help offset the effect on the environment.
Say what you want about the viability of this plant, it is just amazing how much havoc government agencies inflict on businesses. From an 19,000 acre plan, only 4,000 acres wound up being incorporated into the business plan.
You can kill a bunch of birds for solar energy, but you can’t kill one smelt to irrigate farm land.
Well, let’s see: if we build these plants all over and put all the homes underground underneath them, we can convert to get a substantial portion of our power with solar — maybe as much as 10%. But where will we put the windfarms in order to kill the birds that don’t get roasted? And where will the children play? Cue Mustapha Cat Stevens.
Housing units in CA in 2013 = 13,791,262
Solar Plants (160k houses per) needed = 86.2
Acreage per plant = 4000
Total acreage needed for all residences = 344,781.6
Square miles of desert habitat destroyed = 538.7
An amount of land almost equal to Marin County just North of S.F. needs to be destroyed in order to power residences and that’s not including manufacturing, industrial, office, etc. bldgs.
Also, expect air quality to take a direct hit as not one of the solar facilities in our area engages in any form of dust abatement...bastards.
High-tech bird fryer. But hey, it’s “green”.
I suppose those 160,000 homes all go to bed at sundown.
Gee i wonder where those thousands of solar panels were built.....
“160,000 homes”
Roughly about 1/4 of what a single nuke reactor or large coal plant can produce.
Try again California.
Maybe they can get some of those coal miners from West Virginia to move out there and take “high paying high tech jobs” washing solar panels at $8.00 a hour.