Saturday, August 26, 2006

Solar farm sites?

A suggestion -

"the Grass Valley Water Treatment plant...would be a great place for a solar farm-- sunny, publicly owned, and already protected by high fences. If the city can't be pursuaded to invest in such a project, perhaps the surrounding neighborhood would be willing to help finance this; several of us would like to get solar panels on our houses but this area is too heavily shaded."


What would it take and who would you talk to, to suggest this?

(this being GV's drinking water plant, not the sewage treatment plant.)

1 comment:

Anna Haynes said...

Yes, although security could become an issue. (The same idea would be appealing on many large flat-topped buildings, e.g. the office buildings up at Whimpering Pines; however, theft has been a recurrent issue, and it would be a huge bummer to come in one morning to find your investment missing.)
Hence the appeal of an already-secured area.

Though once webcams become omnipresent, things may change...