Solar thermal is much more practical than wind because it can be operated in dense grids that are cost effective to wire to the grid unlike the widely distributed wind power being described here. Moreover, solar thermal generates power in a manner that is more reliable than wind and that’s quite important. In a solar thermal solution with steam turbines, it is common practice to integrate thermal storage that uses molten nitrate salts to circulate heat through an enormous vat mostly filled with nothing but gravel which provides the thermal mass to allow the system to continue producing hundreds of megawatts of power well into the night.

I’m sure that there are a whole lot of folks who live in the WEST that would take umbrage with your value judgment. It’s not like those lands are used by the residents of all those western states in which they now reside. I’m mean really Federal lands in the west are unused and bring in no tourist or other revenue. Sarcasm mode off. If you think the world needs a buffalo park on the great plains organize and get your neighbors to buy/build one. Just don’t sell off the existing deer, antelope, elk, and horse ones in the west to do it.

So build your buffalo park in the great plains and leave the western public lands alone. Then “It’s win-win-win-win.”-WIN!

This article reminded of a New York Times article I read recently. The article states that one in ever four mammals is threatened with extinction. That statistic is frightening, and we need to do whatever we can to prevent the further rape of our planet’s resources.