Topic: Energy (Consumption, Efficiency, Conservation, and Alternatives)
This article focuses on the plan to build wind and solar farms in the California Desert. The article discusses how with the sunny, open desert, the country’s leaning toward renewable energy and the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan make this idea possible. After six years of negotiations and changes, the plan proposes that more than 600 miles of public land in the desert of California be used to build wind and solar farms, enough to meet and surpass California Energy Commission goals. The article acknowledges that many people believe the plan does not allow enough public land for development, but argues that the plan is necessary in order to solve the climate crisis and says that the plan should be approved. I agree with the author of this article and believe that the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan should be approved. The main problems with wind and solar farms are that they take up a lot of land and they are seen as unsightly and ugly by some people. In the desert, there are hundreds of miles of land that are unused and unseen by most Californians. Coupled with perfect sunny and windy conditions, I think that the California desert is the perfect place to build wind turbines and install solar panels. Although some people may argue that the renewable energy sources take up too much public land, that public land was not being used before. It was merely desert but with wind and solar farms in place, the land will be used productively in order to generate clean sources of electricity for Californians. In my opinion, having wind turbines and solar panels on that public land is a better use of the public land because it benefits many people. Although the amount of land proposed in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan would make enough wind and solar farms to surpass the goal of the California Energy Commission, I do not think that this means that there should be less land use. Instead of meeting the goal, the goal should be surpassed if possible. Because that public land was not being used for anything before, nothing is lost in using that land to use renewable resources and generate energy and electricity.
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