Manonthestreet
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California's largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert communities northeast of Los Angeles. California's San Bernardino County slams the brakes on big solar projects
Be interesting to see what the follow on effects of this will be on other counties., Pressure must have been intense from the State, unions and such yet they held for the people. I've read you need somewhere close to 300sq miles of windmills to replace avg sized power plant. Dont know if that still holds but the state mandate to get 60% of power from renewables seems like you are going to need vast amount of land for that.
Be interesting to see what the follow on effects of this will be on other counties., Pressure must have been intense from the State, unions and such yet they held for the people. I've read you need somewhere close to 300sq miles of windmills to replace avg sized power plant. Dont know if that still holds but the state mandate to get 60% of power from renewables seems like you are going to need vast amount of land for that.