I have a suggestion for the siting of a large solar power plant in the Mojave desert: Use the Owens Lake bed, which is a 200 sq mile dry lake between Olancha and Lone Pine in California which was created by the removal of water for Los Angeles through the construction of the LA Aqueduct. It is one of the worst environmental disasters in the United States and contributes around 8% of the country’s total particulate matter pollution. Although Los Angeles is legally obligated to solve this problem, nothing in reality will ever be accomplished as long as a growing city of 10 million people requires water. Totally covering this lake with a solar plant could probably solve two problems at the same time - It would solve the dust pollution problem by covering the dry lake bed with the necessary solar energy equipment and would provide a site for solar plant siting which is already environmentally damaged and therefore would not cause any environmental opposition. This would avoid having to site new solar plants on environmentally sensitive areas of the Mojave desert as is currently planned.
And in the near future another such site will unfortunately become available by the inevitable drying of the Salton Sea.
Postscript added on Aug. 17.
I don't want to brag but I just read a news article about covering the Owens dry lake with solar collectors (http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=6966498). In addition to the above Blog posting, I had written the Department of Energy and also a solar company that plans to open a large solar plant in the Mojave desert (with no responses of course). In any case, I am sure that this idea was so obvious that it occurred to many people previously.
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