[ExI] solar is looking better all the time: was RE: Efficiency of wind power

[Adrian Tymes]

2011/4/6 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> If you have a few days to mess around, I do encourage those who worry about
> mankind’s future energy resources to get in a Detroit and drive out to some
> of these desert wastelands, just to get a feel for how open and vast they
> are.  Go down highway 395 in eastern Oregon and California, or go nearly
> anywhere in Nevada.  Plenty of open space out there, and the land is
> practically free.

Save for the cost of fending off inevitable "environmentalist" lawsuits.
The existing oil players have shown that they will astroturf large solar
energy plants to death where they can.