{"id":5936,"date":"2010-08-24T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:55","slug":"senator-kyl-cries-crocodile-tears-arizona-solar-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2010\/08\/24\/senator-kyl-cries-crocodile-tears-arizona-solar-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kyl Cries Crocodile Tears for Arizona Solar Water Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recent hearings for a proposed 340-MW Hualapai Valley Solar <\/a>Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in western Arizona has brought up water yet again, in a report from Energy Prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arizona’s Republican Senator Kyl has stepped in to battle against using Arizona’s sun potential for solar CSP. (He was recently famous for saying publicly that we should extend the two trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich<\/a> rather than extend the unemployment benefits, during the worst recession since the depression).<\/p>\n Senator Kyl claims that solar CSP uses too much water. The plant he opposes would use 800 gallons per MWh, the same as a Palo Verde nuclear plant. Yet he supports the nuclear plant, and even wants Renewable Energy Standards changed so nuclear power qualifies as “renewable”. <\/p>\n