Desert Vistas vs. Solar Power, in Chile too?
One of the world-class places for solar and eolic power projects is the Mojave Desert in California. New York Times published the article “Desert Vistas vs. Solar Power” , where upstreaming controversity between “landscape, monumental protectionism” and “clean energy projects for future” are highlightened.
Even there is no answer, who’s wrong and who’s right, this is a beginning tendency for possible limitations in desertic regions worlwide, even in Chilean Atacama Desert, where actually solarproject developers are looking for best climate and cost competive places for plant constructions. With sun radiation around 7.000 KWH/m2/day, on average!
Therefore, adequate existence of legal, environmental and social rights and regulations by states with desertic energy potentials like Chile will determine how fast new and clean technologies come into practise.
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