Mesquite solar plant is completed (150 MW, AZ)

[longship]

11. Thanks, seen this kind of thing before, too.

Again, possibly you mistake my point. The point is not what should we be doing but what can we do in the current milieu.

There's a reason why they're building solar PV plants in the desert SW and not in Washington state. It might be a political one, or people might not be in tune to capabilities and availabilities. But the fact is that the big solar projects seem to coincide with low latitude desert regions in the US.

They're building wind mills here in MI and are talking about planting them offshore in the Great Lakes but MI is not a very windy place. That's good.

But I am not saying, nor would I ever say that this is the way it should be. It is just the way it is right now. If we want to change that, we've got to get people thinking outside the box which I read as the purpose of your responses in this thread.

As to the correct perception of the fossil fuel industry having a lock on power generation, that can only be fought by waging battles across a wide spectrum of science, engineering, politics, and business. There are many powerful foes in this battle. Although science show ways to the future we usually have to drag politics and business along screaming all the way. And what does one do with people like James Inhof? How does one marginalize his message when so many people actually believe his spewage?

We've got some work to do, my friend.