I'm so glad this is happening. I remember reading an article[1] back in 2008 postulating that we could rid ourselves of foreign oil dependency by turning Death

I'm so glad this is happening. I remember reading an article[1] back in 2008 postulating that we could rid ourselves of foreign oil dependency by turning Death Valley into a solar farm (unfortunately the article is now blocked, but a later article was posted[2]). I thought it was genius. To finally see this come to fruition, even at a pretty small level (it looks from the article we will only see enough power for 100k homes or so), this should be a great experiment to validate the need for solar in America. [1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solar-grand-plan/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solar-grand-plan... [2]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/challenges-for-desert-solar-power/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/challenges-for-des...