"Green Energy"?
This was probably desert tortoise and sage grouse habitat, and it was a natural carbon sink. Now, $750,000,000 later, it's an industrial site, one that generates a tremendous amount of heat. It has had some operational problems, and has been out of service a lot.
The quality of my electrical power here in Nevada still stinks, I recent lost my main 29.5TB RAID system of photographs and time-lapse video to a power failure.
There are proposals to build billions of dollars of new electrical infrastructure and gift it to NV Energy (owned by billionaire Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway), and to offer up to 9 million more acres in Nevada for industrial solar development.
After this gift of billions to the billionaire, our electrical service quality will still suck. We'll be prone to electrical equipment damage as the grid goes down in wind and lightning storms. When there's a regional power outage because too many people need to use air conditioners, people die (233 in the British Columbia heat wave this week).
If they put solar power on our roofs instead, and a battery in every home, we'd be resistant to power outages, power spikes, our electricity bills would go down or to zero, The panels would shade our roofs from the sun so we'd need less air conditioning (power), and it would encourage us to buy electric vehicles. Our transportation costs would go down, and we'd burn less gasoline.
The upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning pickup actually can serve as that home battery, and power your home in the event of a power outage.
Turning 9 million acres of Nevada high desert into industrial park heat islands is only a good idea to lobbyists, and to the politicians in their pockets. Make families more resistant to power bill costs and outages instead.
"Green Energy"?
This was probably desert tortoise and sage grouse habitat, and it was a natural carbon sink. Now, $750,000,000 later, it's an industrial site, one that generates a tremendous amount of heat. It has had some operational problems, and has been out of service a lot.
The quality of my electrical power here in Nevada still stinks, I recent lost my main 29.5TB RAID system of photographs and time-lapse video to a power failure.
There are proposals to build billions of dollars of new electrical infrastructure and gift it to NV Energy (owned by billionaire Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway), and to offer up to 9 million more acres in Nevada for industrial solar development.
After this gift of billions to the billionaire, our electrical service quality will still suck. We'll be prone to electrical equipment damage as the grid goes down in wind and lightning storms. When there's a regional power outage because too many people need to use air conditioners, people die (233 in the British Columbia heat wave this week).
If they put solar power on our roofs instead, and a battery in every home, we'd be resistant to power outages, power spikes, our electricity bills would go down or to zero, The panels would shade our roofs from the sun so we'd need less air conditioning (power), and it would encourage us to buy electric vehicles. Our transportation costs would go down, and we'd burn less gasoline.
The upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning pickup actually can serve as that home battery, and power your home in the event of a power outage.
Turning 9 million acres of Nevada high desert into industrial park heat islands is only a good idea to lobbyists, and to the politicians in their pockets. Make families more resistant to power bill costs and outages instead.