Environmentalists Against Green Power
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at
12:40 pm
If the desert isn’t a good place for solar energy, where is?
Solar companies proposing large power plants in the Mojave Desert are facing opposition from conservationists. They say a rush to build solar here threatens to tear up large tracts of desert habitat and open space.
Environmentalists want to stick with rootops, but as FuturePundit notes, there are other governmental obstacles to that. In addition, California has state mandates for green energy increase, and rooftops alone won’t cut it.
The Greens are going to be their worst enemy in this.
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It amazes me how short sighted some people/organizations can be. It is just like the preservationists who prevented any type of forest fires in California. By doing so, they let the dead under brush accumulate, which resulted in huge uncontrollable devastating fires, that ended up doing more damage in the long run.
You need to look at the whole picture and the long term. Done properly, solar energy can be a great benefit.
Hi nice post, You might be interested to hear of the The innovative (and controversial) UK wave hub being built on the Firth has been giving the go ahead – Energy that gets produced underwater and that can’t be seen to the naked eye must be hailed as a great achievement.As long is it does not have a negative impact in the local marine life the more of green and clean energy we can put into the Scottish Power grid is fantastic.