Could Nevada desert become a huge solar energy farm?

[jpak]

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/nevada_11784___article.html/become_people.html

People unfamiliar with Nevada’s vast desert often find it more difficult to see what is there than to imagine what could be superimposed on the seemingly endless landscape.


Nuclear waste wedged inside a mountain.


Towering mushroom clouds.


A network of nuclear missiles covering 10,000 square miles.


These days, a very different image is evoked for 10,000 square miles of Nevada desert: a 100-mile-by-100-mile square of solar panels, enough to furnish the entire country with electricity.

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[old mark]

1. IIRC, the Feds already own large tracts there, and this would be

a great benefit to Nevada's economy.

mark

[SlingBlade]

2. Why Not ?

Shouldn't be much of a problem those "Not in my backyard" Types either :fistbump: