Solar sites are chosen based on access to transmission lines, land availability, community support and permitting laws. Despite this, Hernandez’s study found 19 percent of solar sites were built far away from transmission lines, which suggests poor planning and execution by the California government.
The majority of solar sites are concentrated in California’s Central Valley, Imperial Valley and the Mojave Desert. The study underpins many of solar power’s unintended environmental consequences — namely, that it uses lots of arable land.
“Anyone would think that it’s quite oxymoronic that a solar energy plant could actually create or cause environmental degradation,” said Hernandez. “That’s what is happening.”
solar panels fucking up Cali
Why?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."