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Environmentalists are simply not serious about energy production

Legislation introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) would permanently seal off a million acres of the Mojave Desert from solar plants and wind farms. Since Feinstein is chair of the Senate sub-committee that controls the Interior Department's budget, her wish will be its command. For example:

• California is headed by an environmentalist governor who signed into law that by the year 2020, one third of the electricity produced in the state must be from "renewable sources," of which solar and wind power are the most often touted.
• The Mojave Desert is the best location in California for both solar plants and wind farms.
• Plans were made for 13 large wind farms and solar plants, which would have gone a long way towards meeting the requirements of the law.

Feinstein, an environmentalist, has blocked these plans.

Feinstein's 'concern' is that these wind farms and solar plants will be large and ugly and spoil the view from the freeway that runs across the Mojave.

This raises a key question: Why is the view from some freeway sacrosanct, whereas building such plants elsewhere in the state is OK?

Of course, the ordinary nuclear plant the size of a football field can reliably supply the electricity that solar plants and wind farms covering many square miles do unreliably.

However, Feinstein hates nuclear energy too...

[Nothing will change until we make changes.]

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