They could have at least mentioned that nuclear works better at night.
Nuclear power will be a lot better prospect once one of those Western states agrees to let the rest of the country store our spent fuel in their state underground. As I understand it they worry that a major earthquake could cause leakage into the ground water.
Environmentalists: "Sure, we're for 'solar' power and 'wind' power, but don't you dare mar our fragile desert ecosystems with evil power plants. And take down those ugly bird-killing windmills, too!"
don't believe everything you read,
150 MW is the sum of the 140 MW 'backup' gas powered
generator, plus the output of the
solar 10 MW main generator.
or something like that,
California could use the Death Valley area to provide power-generating stations that would be virtually out of sight.
Whoops, I forgot. There is probably a lizzard or rat out there that might go extinct if humans were allowed within 50 miles of it.
Two points - first, we should learn to exploit energy where it presents itself.
And second, try to amortize the cost of nuclear when the waste has to be stored for 10,000 years (and the Pyramids are half that age).
Of course you know that when these solar plants become effective, the Environmental Nazis will complain about how they threaten some spider or turtle. Or how they are heating up the atmosphere. The end result is that the Environmentalist want us to live in caves, or just kill ourselves.