Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted

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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FFS just go nuclear

[RiotingPacifist]

while renewable energy is a good long term goal, going nuclear would/does work today [see France] and the excess power allows you to do interesting things when the grid is not using it all [see CERN]. Now that's not to say there aren't issues, but they are known issues and as long as you don't try doing anything stupid [see Chernobyl] and stick to regulations its >99.999% safe.

and while they're at it perhaps they could invest the money needed to finally get fission working too. all this 'being green' is needed while were burning coal, but once we go nuclear we can throw energy about for supercomputers/labs/cars/etc

Re:ok

[hypergreatthing]

Well, I'm pretty sure the downsides are
a) less financial campain contributions
b) no more fake wars for oil
c) energy independence... i mean, interfering less with countries we have no buisness being in

Phew, looks as if there are too many negatives to continue.