Scuttling of solar, wind projects a baffling mistake

[Midnight Mike]

Green talk vs. green action / Feinstein’s scuttling of solar, wind projects a baffling mistake
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2009

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009 ... ttling-so/ (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/27/green-talk-vs-green-action-feinsteins-scuttling-so/)

Every week seems to bring a new development that underscores the incoherence of the environmental movement, which believes global warming is the world’s most pressing problem yet is often the biggest roadblock to efforts to address the problem by developing cleaner sources of energy.

The latest example: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s push to protect 1 million acres of the Mojave Desert, which inevitably will kill 13 major solar power and wind power projects planned for the area.

President George W. Bush in 2005 ordered efforts to make it easier to develop renewable energy projects on this land, an effort supported by his successor, Barack Obama.

Yet the Obama administration also seems more open to letting environmentalists block projects – even as it seeks a federal law mandating much higher use of renewable energy, as California has done. This doesn’t add up.

[Matt Molnar]

Paradoxically, oil-rich and often vilified Texas is actually becoming the nation's leader in green energy thanks to its relatively unintrusive environmental laws and few NIMBYs. Want to build a wind farm? Go right ahead.

Interesting article about it: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... 38280.html (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4338280.html)

Probably a good place to look for a job if you have any mechanical/engineering/electrical experience, as long as you don't mind working in a windmill 200ft above the middle of nowhere. :)

[Midnight Mike]

Paradoxically, oil-rich and often vilified Texas is actually becoming the nation's leader in green energy thanks to its relatively unintrusive environmental laws and few NIMBYs. Want to build a wind farm? Go right ahead.

Interesting article about it: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... 38280.html (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4338280.html)

Probably a good place to look for a job if you have any mechanical/engineering/electrical experience, as long as you don't mind working in a windmill 200ft above the middle of nowhere. :)

Great link, thanks for posting that!