[roc-chat] Re: Launch site.

  • From: Robert Brown <cineflex@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 08:25:57 -0700

Thanks for that update Rick. I'll stop my worrying. See you in June. 

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Bob Brown

On May 9, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Rick Dickinson <rtd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 09 May 2012 07:37:51 -0700, Bob Brown <cineflex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Approved until 2017? Have the plans for a solar farm on the lake bed in the 
>> near future gone away or was that just a bad rumor?
>  
> 
> Bob,
> 
> First, a disclaimer: This is what I've gathered from conversations with a lot 
> of different people over the last few years.  I don't have any guarantees in 
> writing, but I'm pretty confident that my conclusion is sound, even if I 
> might be slightly off on a few of the minor details.
> 
> So, here's my personal opinion -- take it for what it's worth:
> 
> The solar plans for the lake bed are basically on hold indefinitely; I 
> personally doubt they'll ever happen, at this point.
> 
> The entire solar project was contingent upon the transmission lines in the 
> area being able to handle the increased power transmission requirements.  The 
> existing ones simply aren't up to the task.
> 
> There is (was?) an unrelated project, known as "Green Path" (I hate these 
> deliberately misleading and manipulative names), which would have put in a 
> whole new set of high-power transmission lines, running from the 10 freeway 
> near Palm Springs, through the 29 Palms area, and all along Highway 247 from 
> Yucca Valley to Lucerne Valley, and then along Highway 18 from Lucerne Valley 
> through Apple Valley & Victorville to Interstate 15.  This proposed project 
> met with, shall we say, vociferous opposition from the residents whose 
> neighborhoods would be affected.  Basically, the project's dead in the water.
> 
> Unless and until the "Green Path" or something like it happens, there isn't 
> enough transmission capacity anywhere near Lucerne Valley  to support a power 
> generating station, solar or otherwise, at Lucerne Dry Lake.
> 
> We're safe, for now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  - Rick Dickinson
> 
>  

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