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Less than a year after plans were dropped for a controversial wind farm near Searchlight, an even larger and more contentious project in the same area is advancing through the permitting process.
The Bureau of Land Management has agreed to conduct an environmental review of a Swedish developer’s proposal to build as many as 220 wind turbines across a 22-mile swath of the Nevada-California border west of Searchlight.
The turbines would be at least 410 feet tall — roughly the same height as the Planet Hollywood Resort — and clustered on more than 32,500 acres of public land directly adjacent to Mojave National Preserve and the 2-year-old Castle Mountains National Monument. In Nevada, the wind farm would surround the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness on two sides.
I'm not a fan of these massive wind or solar farms. If they must be constructed, let them be constructed near where the power will be consumed. The desert is too fragile for this kind of thing.
There's nothing out there. It's just wasted space. Whereas here in Sprawltopia we have strip malls and superblocks and 18-lane freeways. They're too beautiful to defile with power generating equipment.
The latest from Chuck Grassley. Translations appreciated.
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WAKE UP HOUSE&SENATE LEADER don’t extend EB5 in Omni Goodlatte and I worked compromise BUT Manhattan real estate moguls reject/ So r u yr after yr going to melt in front of these moneyed interests??
As a former Air Force officer, and as a preparer of multiple NEPA documents involving military air space, I can say with considerable confidence that the military's default analytical approach toward land and air training space is: "We need it all and if you disagree why do you hate freedom?"
I'm not a fan of these massive wind or solar farms. If they must be constructed, let them be constructed near where the power will be consumed. The desert is too fragile for this kind of thing.
Not in my back yard, you desert rat!
There's nothing out there. It's just wasted space. Whereas here in Sprawltopia we have strip malls and superblocks and 18-lane freeways. They're too beautiful to defile with power generating equipment.
Well, most of the time. <img src="https://media.nbcsandiego.com/images/1200*675/chulavistapowerplant.jpg"/>
And Tucson. And Las Vegas. And Barstow. And Los Angeles (that's a desert, too).
The latest from Chuck Grassley. Translations appreciated.
Henghgh?
As a former Air Force officer, and as a preparer of multiple NEPA documents involving military air space, I can say with considerable confidence that the military's default analytical approach toward land and air training space is: "We need it all and if you disagree why do you hate freedom?"
That goddam thing used to sit on San Diego Bay. I think it's been torn down by now. At least in the midwest where I grew up they had the decency to put a skin on the building. <img src="https://i0.wp.com/farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7445256700_d925fb5e30_z.jpg"/>
Put a wind generator on top of the smokestack and solar panels on the roof, and you got something going!
The sparrows had to fly backwards to keep the smoke out of their eyes. – Mike Harding (I think).