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Originally Posted by cfg83
jamesqf -
I'm from LA, CA, and I don't mind. This is a very weak critique on your part that diminishes your overall argument. Instead of "taking offense" and attacking your opponent over details that aren't germane to the thread, how about sticking to a principled defense of your POV?
I think the "covering NV in PV" argument is also specious. I think it is mostly mentioned because the square footage of the state roughly matches the energy requirements of 100% PV use in the USA (at 15% efficient?). You can argue that it is because of the amount of desert that NV has, but CA, AZ, and NM also have a lot of desert, so maybe they can give up some land too.
I'm against nuclear energy because I don't trust it's track record in the USA and I don't hear nuclear energy proponents explaining solutions to the classic problems of nuclear waste and proliferation at the *beginning* of their advocacy. If you can find a way of processing nuclear waste so that all the leftovers can be released back into the environment, then we can talk. If you propose to store the waste for any length beyond 100 years, then I will also reject your solution. I don't see any government as capable of being stable for long enough to steward the "1000 years or more" waste dump sites like Yucca Mountain.
CarloSW2
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Ideally, noone would have to give up land for solar use. At least noone who wasn't willing. When you stop and think about it, and I mean REALLY think about it, the sq. mile area of Nevada is probably less than comparable to the size of the rooftops and unused window spaces of the Federal and Corporate controlled buildings in the US.
*Obvious Questions*
What is your point?
If we could use that space on buildings, we save land that is
already ecologically suited to grow plants, rather than trying to displace plants to the tops of buildings. (Another "green" strategy)
What the heck are "unused window spaces"?
These are the spaces in buildings that
look like windows, from the outside, but they really aren't. Often, these will include glass spaces which span the floor/ceiling area of a story of the building, the areas where HVAC piping is run, as well as electrical conduit, etc. They're basically any space that a person wouldn't be able to look out of on a regular basis. These "windows" are often covered from the backsides with some form of insulation, to block light transfer, as well as to help insulate the building's unmentionable areas.