Solar Farm = Cooked Birds?
Peter Laufer took on mega-solar-energy farms in this op-ed for High Country News that promotes rooftop solar. “Which should come first,” he asks, “protecting the threatened desert tortoise or creating expensive electricity for an already overpopulated California?” In addition to the fowl (foul?), endangered Desert Tortoises are victims of the world’s largest solar plant along the Nevada-California border.
