For those of us living in the Southwest US, the seasonal monsoon thunderstorms aren’t a distant and hypothetical issue. If you live here or visit us in the late summer, they’re rather hard to miss! According to a group of Arizona scientists, it’s not just our imagination. They really are getting more extreme.
At a wind farm near Palm Springs yesterday, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented the department’s long-awaited plans for both multi-energy renewables development and conservation within 22.5 million acres of the Mojave and other Southern California deserts. More than half the land lies within San Bernardino County. The … [continued]
This year’s World Solar Challenge is backed by the international environmental services giant, Veolia.
Desert lands in solar-rich Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will not just supply our nation with abundant, clean, safe, fuel-free solar power – but will also generate very good financial returns for the benefit of the public good nationwide, under a new fee schedule the Bureau of … [continued]
Nipton, a tiny Californian town in the blaring sun of the Mojave just went solar, and is likely to soon become a tourist attraction as “the most solar town in America.” The townsfolk, all thirty eight of them, just installed their own citywide supply of clean abundant solar power. [social_buttons] … [continued]
