I read an article on the NPR site that outlined the difficulties companies are having putting very large solar farms in California. It seems there is quite a bit of NIMBY going on. No on wants them to rip up large swaths of land just down the road from where they live. They are concerned that if they remove the vegetation it will create a dust bowl. This is a tough dilemma and I'm not sure of the answer. It would supply power for about 120,000 homes.
It did get me thinking...what if these companies could lease roof space from all those homes and put their solar systems there? Then they wouldn't have to touch all that land. Of course it would be more expensive and probably the biggest draw back is that the smart grid isn't really in place to move this power to where it needs to get to. I do think distributed power is the key going forward...just need the smart grid!
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