Just south of Yuma, Arizona and a few miles southeast of San Luis del Rio Colorado, Sonora, is a very large flat chunk of sand.
http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/sonora-state-mexico/sonora-state-mexico-map-a0.gif I spent a day in the hot sun out there with my tiny Mazda GLC stuck in the sand. I was doing a report proposing the world's largest solar plan based on the design used at the one in Barstow, California. This chunk of land receives more sun-light than just about anywhere on earth. Unfortuantely, my report concluded this would be a terrible place for a solar plant. Sandstorms destory the solar panels quickly. Earthquakes break the solar panels. Workers moral living in such a hostile environment would be low. Working outside in the desert sun and breathing the sand would be unhealthy. I toured the plant in Barstow. They had the same problems. But that plant provides a whole lot of power to San Bernadino. A funny thing happened to me out there while I was baking in the sun. The guy that rescued me was president of a solar engineering company in Phoenix, Arizona. This was one of the last places that isolated indians lived without every having contact with Europeans. The mysterious "Sand Papago." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hia_C-ed_O'odham --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com
