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LanternWaste

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40. Those then being the only two end-results you can envision?

Reply to Klaralven (Reply #39)

Mon Dec 7, 2020, 08:16 PM

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If I don't support losing pristine desert to solar farms am I anti environment? [View all] ripcord Dec 2020 OP

There is no free lunch. Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #1

The areas benefitting from solar in the desert have proper conditions to produce their own solar ripcord Dec 2020 #3

Right. Various sets of costs and benefits to all possible actions. Hortensis Dec 2020 #11

Negawatts are always best Blues Heron Dec 2020 #2

Yes, tell people in Southern Cal to turn off their air conditioning. former9thward Dec 2020 #36

Ok! Socal - turn it down! Blues Heron Dec 2020 #37

Work that wedge, baby greenjar_01 Dec 2020 #4

Federal land in the South West is vast. Edwards AFB alone is 470 square miles in size Kaleva Dec 2020 #5

Rooftop solar should be required in Los Angeles ripcord Dec 2020 #8

the new rooftop solar law for new housing went into effect Jan 1 Blues Heron Dec 2020 #38

Or you could build one tiny nuclear plant there... hunter Dec 2020 #10

Relatively speaking, solar farms, even the biggest, are not large. Kaleva Dec 2020 #14

Oh, so that makes it all right to clear with bulldozers for solar panels. hunter Dec 2020 #28

I hate those. I hate wind turbines as well. These are fronts for the filthy gas fracking industry. hunter Dec 2020 #6

Okay,try this. Wellstone ruled Dec 2020 #7

So why aren't solar farms going up around Las Vegas? ripcord Dec 2020 #9

Two new ones are Wellstone ruled Dec 2020 #21

If we were serious, we'd be building more nuclear plants Sympthsical Dec 2020 #12

No, it is dangerous and then there is the waste issue...I would rather use gas then nuclear. Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #18

I agree with you Yeehah Dec 2020 #31

Tell me what you do support, not what you don't. Iggo Dec 2020 #13

I'm not a fan of Hydro Dams on the Skagit or the Columbia, either. maxsolomon Dec 2020 #15

Why aren't the areas using the power makng the sacrifices? ripcord Dec 2020 #17

Rooftops ARE getting PV installs all over urban America. maxsolomon Dec 2020 #19

You couldn't produce enough IMHO. Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #20

Cool story, bro. RandiFan1290 Dec 2020 #16

The problem we have here in NM is the solar produced by wind farms is going out of state womanofthehills Dec 2020 #22

Seems (not *is*, but *seems) simply self-absorbed and short-sighted rather than anti-environment. LanternWaste Dec 2020 #23

Rooftop Sgent Dec 2020 #24

"...am I anti environment?" myohmy2 Dec 2020 #25

Desert solar isn't ideal, but perhaps more practical. tinrobot Dec 2020 #26

No. Leave the desert and public lands alone. Rooftop solar. jeffreyi Dec 2020 #27

Putting them in the desert works fine for me. NurseJackie Dec 2020 #29

I'm a big fan of individual production. Arthur_Frain Dec 2020 #30

Point source generation is better and localized... 2naSalit Dec 2020 #32

Well, fortunately for desert-lovers, we'll be seeing a lot coti Dec 2020 #33

I think solar farms are a bad idea. I think they should be on roofs. That way demigoddess Dec 2020 #34

as far as cost, it could be part of your mortgage. demigoddess Dec 2020 #35

Eventually there will be a number of cities around the world running off of fusion reactors Klaralven Dec 2020 #39

Those then being the only two end-results you can envision? LanternWaste Dec 2020 #40

Rooftop solar is not magic caraher Dec 2020 #41