If this is the best we can do, we're hosed.

[rexbeccarox]

Many times I've driven past the big solar plant they're engineering in the Mojave, and I have to say: where they're building it is a wasteland. The first time my friends and I drove past it, it was like, "hey guys... what's that out there?"... just a strange, shiny spot on the horizon of this brown, hilly... nothing. The last time I drove out to Vegas and back (March, I think?), I was taken aback at how much progress they had made. It was huge, taking up 1000% more area than it had before. It's a pretty amazing resource, and much more ecologically/environmentally friendly than coal or oil. We also have a ton of wind farms in California that take up a lot of space where wildlife could live, but renewable resources are important for our environment, so the wildlife adapts, moves, or dies. Usually, it adapts.