[chimera]

That is the elephant in the living room (that and intermittency, or capacity factor) that no one who advocates these so-called “renewable” energy sources is willing to acknowledge. All of the windies and sunnies say, oh, there's so much power available out in the desert, or on the plains of Montana or North Dakota, we can build these things out there and everything will be great, we don't need oil or nuclear or hydro. The trouble is, very few people live out there, you have to transmit that energy over a long distance, and that means power lines. And then they oppose those. Jerks.

[saganite]

California environmentalists have already brought a lawsuit against a proposed transmission line from a solar power plant in the desert. There is no form of power generation that is acceptable to them despite their supposed support for wind and solar.