Comment by walrus01
2 hours ago
In the context of California, land that is not suitable for agriculture because it can't be irrigated, even though it's flat and somewhat accessible by road. California has plenty of it, go drive around near Twenty Nine Palms and you'll see it...
And the moment you start building large structures on it everyone and their dog is going to show up and NIMBY it.
Spoken like someone who has never been to the mojave. This is the home to the largest wind turbine installation in the country. But again, if the worry is the solar panels acting like sails, probably not a great site given that wind.
Now measure the wind at twenty nine palms