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 Literally "Fry" the Great Sandhill Cranes While They Migrate from The Great Sand Dunes National Park to the Monte Vista Refuge!Let's literally incinerate the 25,000 or so Great Sandhill Cranes during their migration in the name of "greening" the environment with solar energy! Not to mention killing the hundreds of thousands of other migrating geese, ducks and other waterfowl as they pass along their regular migratory path from the Baca National Wetlands Refuge just west of the Sand Dunes to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge. Really! We aren't kidding! SolarReserve® of Santa Monica, California, in coordination with shadowy partners is planning to build two 82 story tall towers (that's 656 feet tall, each) surrounded by 24 million square feet of mirrors ("heliostats") aimed at the top of those towers to create temperatures from 1000 to 2000 °F. Those mirror fields cover 6,000+ acres (ten square miles) just 8 miles from the Baca National Wetlands Wildlife Refuge at the Great Sand Dunes National Park. By comparison, the Sand Dunes themselves only reach to 750 feet elevation! Perhaps the architects of this outrageous project thought that the Sand Dunes needed enhancing with ugly gray twin towers complementing nature's work with their own! The migrating birds will fly directly through the ten square miles of those extraordinarily high temperature areas! Perhaps they can survive temperatures that high for the half hour to hour it takes them to traverse the oven. We believe there is absolutely no possibility that they will survive without being incinerated. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Biggest Construction Project in Colorado Since the Building of DIA! This project is huge. It involves two 100 Megawatt Generators powered by 2 huge steam turbines -- nearly as large as the ones in Hoover Dam! The engineering is sketchy at best. Especially since they have not built any solar towers this large anywhere in the world before. The engineering challenges for a project that involves design on scales that have not been attempted before are massive. We do not believe that those challenges have been addressed. The 1041 document filed by these polluters reads like a Public Relations document rather than a serious engineering proposal. Seemingly, no environmental impact statement is required because the project is being built on private land. So there is no need to account for light pollution, temperature pollution impacting the entire San Luis Valley weather patterns, water pollution, etc. Worse yet, it is proposed for the pastoral, agricultural vistas directly west of one of our national treasures. and not far: just 8 miles from the National Wildlife Wetlands Refuge at the Sand Dunes and just 15 miles from the Park itself. It is hard to visualize just how massive this industrial complex will actually be. For a real eye opener, be sure to check out Monstrous Project!. 1/1/2012 -- Special Thanks: An anonymous donor just sent us $100 cash to help with our efforts. We thank him/her/them profoundly. However, we cannot accept donations. Therefore, with no return address, we could not return the donation, so we paid it forward -- $50 to the La Puente Homeless Shelter in Alamosa and $50 to the Salvation Army. Thanks again so very much! John and Erika | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
