mdn2000
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Thats right, Solar is dead, non sustainable.
Seems someone forgot about the lack of water in the Arizona and California desert
http://ndep.nv.gov/news/temp_news/water093009.pdf
I think that is sufficient to begin. All solar power plants consume water, at the very least each plant must keep the mirrors or collectors clean of dust, there is a lot of dust in the desert. The water required to clean one solar power plant is millions of gallons of water.
Add the drought in California, the over use of the Colorado river, depleting the aquifers, the better use of water in agricultural food production.
Solar energy is dead.
Seems someone forgot about the lack of water in the Arizona and California desert
http://ndep.nv.gov/news/temp_news/water093009.pdf
September 30, 2009
Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a
Need for Water
By TODD WOODY
AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. In a rural corner of Nevada reeling from the recession,
a bit of salvation seemed to arrive last year. A German developer, Solar Millennium,
announced plans to build two large solar farms here that would harness the sun to
generate electricity, creating hundreds of jobs.
But then things got messy. The company revealed that its preferred method of cooling the
power plants would consume 1.3 billion gallons of water a year, about 20 percent of this
desert valleys available water.
In California, solar developers have already been forced to switch to less water-intensive
technologies when local officials have refused to turn on the tap. Other big solar projects
are mired in disputes with state regulators over water consumption.
To date, the flashpoint for such conflicts has been the Southwest, where dozens of
multibillion-dollar solar power plants are planned for thousands of acres of desert.
I think that is sufficient to begin. All solar power plants consume water, at the very least each plant must keep the mirrors or collectors clean of dust, there is a lot of dust in the desert. The water required to clean one solar power plant is millions of gallons of water.
Add the drought in California, the over use of the Colorado river, depleting the aquifers, the better use of water in agricultural food production.
Solar energy is dead.