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It's so weird. Anyone who's driven across this nation or even flown knows that we have millions of acres of nothing. Why not just cover Nevada with panels? I'm

• ironmagma 2y ago
  Perhaps due to it being federal land and unavailable for use? Most of the west coast is this way.
  • aspenmayer 2y ago
    If federal land is available for grazing and resource extraction, a case could be made for solar development also. As the cells need regular maintenance and cleaning, folks would also be around onsite and around it in federal land areas to preserve the environment.
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• jncfhnb 2y ago
  Nevada has a ton of solar proportionately. You need the power to be able to hook into the transmission grid reasonably close to where it’s needed.
• int_19h 2y ago
  Our distribution grid isn't designed to handle it. Which is totally a solvable issue, it's just that we as a country are seemingly incapable of large infrastructure projects like that anymore. First you spend years arguing that such an investment is even necessary to spend people's taxes on. Then once the political will is there, it takes even longer to get through the permitting process, ecological reviews etc. Kind of insane really because something like this would really be a net win all around - lots of new construction and manufacturing jobs for years, and at the end of it all, a highly resilient grid that can tap into cheap power at its source and bring it to where it's needed.