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Originally Posted by hpjunkie
i know im gonna get it for this. 
but i agree with the now solar panels in the mojave. if you have been there and can appreciate it's beuty, you'll know what im talking about.
besides we already have solar panels there.
Solar Central Power Towers
im all for energy alternatives 100% yet I know there is somewhere more practical to put up solar panels. I hear the governators home is big, put em there... 
All last these last minute fixes are crappy and rushed. If the US gov would have started this program years ago we wouldn't be in a fix to find real estate, becaue a few years back i remember a lot of big lot for this sort of technology. What's there now? Walmart, Applebees, Starbuck, Best Buy.  |
I have been there too: riding my motorcycle three times from east to west across the Mojave. No biggie, but my point is I'm not
working off my couch suggesting we should do them "there" and NIMBY...they could/should be installed anywhere.
As for "practical", what might be more practical? We aren't talking about covering the Mojave in solar panels. My point on the
blathering idiots, of which Feinstein is right near the top, (but she doesn't have the patent, as nearly all the 'genius' House & Senate are also of her ilk, imo),
flapping her gums about a well done solar initiative "cluttering up" any freakin area.
Yes, the US should have started non-petroleum initiatives earlier, but nothing like Today, to start...but, alas there is no capable operation
that could initiate/oversee and make it happen as critically as we need it. A "gov't" monster doing this is not the answer, either, imo.
The last solar really done in the Mojave was in the late '80s. That site pitches the next version coming on in late 2010/11, and a drop in
the bucket, energy producing wise, imo.
Back at the Power Hungry Ranch, we are tilting at windmills, (no pun), and T.Boone Pickens was on the mark; but, with oil at $50 and
gas at 2 bucks, Congress's short memory and the US Public's pollyanna 'tude and equally short memory and blase' outlook suggest we
are all dumb and happy and some miracle will occur.