I'm hopefully not given to apoplexy, but this just about did it for me:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html?
_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://tinyurl.com/4bo5b5
"Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the
federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on
public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is
expected to take about two years."
"The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study
is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions
of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah."
How asinine can government be. Let's see, on one hand we have a few
hundred square miles of desert, on the other we have survival ...
hmmmmm ... yep, we need a two year study to weigh that one.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
