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"Urban sprawl" is certainly an issue...

...as is development of previously "uninhabitable" lands for community development and/or agriculture. There are modern-day "ghost towns" in parts of the southwest--I've posted about this before.

Wells were drilled and hundreds/thousands of acres of "desert" were irrigated to support agriculture. The "towns" started-out as a handful of trailers for the farm-workers. Then, there were houses and schools and shopping centers being built. Water demand went through the roof. Wells started drying-up, new/deeper wells were drilled, but the aquifer kept getting lower/deeper--to the point that it was no longer technically and/or economically feasible to meet the demand.

The studies regarding the solar farms are mainly being conducted by universities and environmentalist groups. I doubt that they are being "bought" by the petroleum industry, but who knows? Environmentalists tend not to "like" the petroleum industry.




"And today is for sale and it's all you can afford. Buy your own admission. The whole things got you bored. Well the Lord chooses the good ones, and the bad ones use the Lord"--a very dear friend for decades Michael Stanley (Gee)--RIP


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