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Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted

Posted by timothy on from the it-would-have-melted-eventually dept.

necro81 writes "Barely a month ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a freeze on applications for solar power plants on federally managed land, pending a two-year comprehensive environmental review. After much hue and cry from the public, industry, and other parts of government, BLM has today announced that it will lift the freeze, but continue to study the possible environmental effects. To date, no solar project has yet been approved on BLM land."

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  1. Frozen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because Big Oil doesn't like Big Sun.

    1. Re:Frozen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      so Big Oil is like Linux right?

      >:)

    2. Re:Frozen? by linzeal · · Score: 2, Funny

      If they are just sitting around it would be far more efficient to build a light rail system that is in constant motion and build park and ride infrastructure on the main thoroughfares. Cars, even electric cars are not the solution if your goal is to minimize the amount of people in a given area. People are inherently filthy animals that eat, shit and fuck their way across the landscape like a rolling orgy of fat in the case of much of the Western world. More telecommuting and less 9 to 5 jobs go a long way from overburdening the sewer systems with those 2 venti latte/triple stack/10 oz of fried potato poos some of us have when we have 15 minutes 3 times a day to shovel food in our face.

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  2. Government listening to the people?? by blahbooboo · · Score: 4, Funny

    My god, what next!? Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

    Yes, it's from ... Ghostbusters!

  3. More proof of global warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some are even predicting U.S. solar plant applications could be ice free by as early as this summer.

  4. Solar plants are dangerous! by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

    They will kill all natural plant life, absorb all available sunlight, douse the planet with darkness, freeze up the North Pole, stop the North Atlantic Conveyor, interfere with the mating rituals of rhesus monkeys and cause the whales to change their tunes. It is the end of the world as we know it!

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    1. Re:Solar plants are dangerous! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's just great. It starts with an earthquake. Maybe some birds and snakes or an aeroplane.

      Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

    2. Re:Solar plants are dangerous! by greenguy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't believe you left out the biggest problem of all: what to do with all that solar waste.

      I know I sure as heck don't want a bunch of depleted sunlight in my backyard!

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    3. Re:Solar plants are dangerous! by philspear · · Score: 3, Funny

      This plan is particularly dangerous when you consider we're not entirely sure how the sun works! Some reports indicate it may be powered by nuclear reactions and it MAY release high amounts of radiation!

      We're considering using this in our backyards?!? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

  5. Re:Don't review it! by StaticEngine · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure if you're aware, but hippie chicks are a pain in the ass. They don't shave their body hair, they're overly concerned with what direction they're facing when making out so they can "harness the natural energy of Gaia", and they think all technology pollutes their auras.

    What you want is to score with a hot female electrical engineer, because there's usually a hellion lurking beneath the rose-rimmed glasses and the tight labcoat.

  6. Possible detrimental environmental effects... by Plazmid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Birds instantly cooked in mid air due to highly focused sunlight.

    1. Re:Possible detrimental environmental effects... by gclef · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, it'll give me light, heat, *and* dinner? Tell me again why this is bad...

    2. Re:Possible detrimental environmental effects... by Shotgun · · Score: 2, Funny

      Beam. Two birds with one beam.

      Sheesh!! Slashdotters.

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  7. Honesty gentlemen.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    this being /., the mods should have been 'interesting' as 'insightful' implies actual experience with said women

  8. Re:Don't review it! by StreetStealth · · Score: 4, Funny

    there's usually a hellion lurking beneath the rose-rimmed glasses and the tight labcoat.

    Wait a second, are you the author of those electrical engineering romance paperbacks I've been reading?

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  9. Re:Don't review it! by Thelasko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but those hippie chicks are so fit from eating vegan food and walking everywhere.

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  10. Re:Don't review it! by Gat0r30y · · Score: 4, Funny

    hot female electrical engineer

    you sir have clearly not been to the engineering building on a college campus. The hot female EE you speak of is a mythical creature, like bigfoot, or a unicorn.

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  11. Re:Continue Building! by InlawBiker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed. And what about the prospect of offshore drilling for solar power? How many seagulls and fish will it displace or kill? I know it's next on the BU$H Agenda, don't try to pretend otherwise!

  12. Re:Don't review it! by Thelasko · · Score: 5, Funny

    The hot female EE you speak of is a mythical creature, like bigfoot, or a unicorn.

    Oh, they exist, I've seen them with my own eyes. They've just been hunted to the edge of extinction.

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  13. Re:Downside #1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Someone's never heard of lunar power...

  14. Re:Don't review it! by FleaPlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait a second, are you the author of those electrical engineering romance paperbacks I've been reading?

    Links please...

  15. Re:Continue Building! by BugZRevengE · · Score: 2, Funny

    12,756.32 kilometers

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