Environment & Energy

It is unlikely the solar cells would have lasted that long. What is more likely is that the town would have died anyway. With the solar farm there the resulting prairie would be littered with glass and metals.

If there is water there - there may not be - for part of the year it will come down as snow. If there isn't water there will be dust.

The oil and gas industry would lose nothing to a solar farm, since so called "renewable energy" depends heavily on access to fossil fuels. Neither Germany nor California could keep the lights on without gas or, in Germany's case coal.

It is a pernicious myth that on our end of the political spectrum that whenever the building of a so called "renewable energy" facility is not built, it is a tragedy. This myth is connected with the belief that this stuff has something to do with addressing extreme global heating. There is no evidence of this. On the contrary, in the quarter century since this myth was embraced, the degradation of the planetary atmosphere has accelerated and reached the highest rate ever observed. The data is appalling. It may be time for many of us to wake up. The planet is burning. Doing what we have been doing is unacceptable because it is unambiguously futile.