Sentences with phrase «concentrating solar farms»

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.

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Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

Concentrating solar power (CSP) also seems like a much more cost - effective solution, especially on the scale that the farms will be built.

The solar farms, which concentrate the sun's power on mirrors to produce heat used to generate electricity, could eventually produce enough electricity to power 675,000 homes.

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