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Checking the area out on Google Maps is instructive. https://goo.gl/maps/ToPPHx2Jjdz8rj5E7?coh=178572&entry=tt https://goo.gl/maps/ToPPHx2Jjdz8rj5E7?coh=178572
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
Checking the area out on Google Maps is instructive.
https://goo.gl/maps/ToPPHx2Jjdz8rj5E7?coh=178572&entry=tt https://goo.gl/maps/ToPPHx2Jjdz8rj5E7?coh=178572&entry=tt
The above takes you to the Ivanpah Concentrating Solar plant. You can also see the golf course that someone built in the desert next to it for scale.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7410557,-115.3975396,138227m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7410557,-115.3975396,138227m...
The largest solar installation in the world, it's truly mind bending in size when you zoom in.
- kjs3 3y agoI've been to Mojave National Preserve (first link). It's OMFG hot and arid. Someone approved building a golf course of all things next to it. And people there are complaining about not having enough water. Well...duh.