i saw this topic a few years back and i remember see the plans for the opposite side of the highway. looking at the image provided it doesnt look like
they have enough room to build all that. what about the little mountain crest of the west of lake, doesnt that block a lot of sun at around 6pm.
who thinks this stuff up? just like why would you want to make Roach a Cargo Airport? its ~45mins for the downtown core. its LAS big enough to supply
passengers and cargo. YVR is smaller than LAS and it does both.
i still think it would be smarter to build wind mills on them hills and put a solar plant on another drylake say closer to Hoover Dam.
PS. if you go to the first click and head to the website, ---> Final Staff Assement --> First PFD --> Page 45, it shows it south of the golf
course.markite - 7-1-2010 at 06:18 PM
if you follow through on some of the links to this site:
about 5 topics down there is a line hilighted in red that you can download a 47.5 meg pdf file and it has maps and photos from all angles (a few of
Ivanpah with blocart guys).
Like Bison said the map indicates other side of the road and west of the dry lake area.
Here is another screen capture from another map on the big pdf filemarkite - 7-1-2010 at 06:20 PM
okay, I'll try that map again....
markite - 7-1-2010 at 07:20 PM
Other things of interest in the pdf file are a series of photo mock-ups under the "Impact" section with before and after images adding in a rendering
of the project on the various photos.
Here is one from the top the hill looking back toward the dry lake in the distance across the highway
markite - 7-1-2010 at 07:23 PM
the only possible concern to us is the earlier references to "Testing Solar Death Ray" that had been changed to read Solar Power Generating Project.
This photo was also shown in that "potential impacts" section
geokite - 7-1-2010 at 08:45 PM
At least it got put to good use when it was tested!USA_Eli_A - 7-1-2010 at 08:51 PM
I guess the only untouched LakeBed left is Smith Creek, hmmmarkite - 7-1-2010 at 09:17 PM
Quote:
At least it got put to good use when it was tested!
..... "missed the NPW by that much"
ripsessionkites - 8-1-2010 at 03:03 AM
ROFL
is this project even approved yet?deanaoxo - 8-1-2010 at 07:13 AM
as Andy Kaufman might say: thank you very much.Cat - 8-1-2010 at 05:23 PM
so funny..SlasherQuan - 9-1-2010 at 10:08 AM
As regards to the new airport they want to build at roach I seriously wonder if that project will continue for now. McCarran (KLAS or LAS) has had a
lot of flights cut . The airline i work for (America West/U.S. Airways) has taken Vegas from a major hub with 150+ flights a day, to just a
destination now @ approx 30 flights a day. My Airline is not the only one to do this. Before the current recession LAS was looking to get maxed out
approx 2012. LAS also had a lot of personal and charter jet traffic as well, all the buildings and hanger stuff on the west side of rwy 1L is all
corporate stuff. How this is doing I don't know. Forecasts for LAS traffic recovery don't look good for a while either. I hope this answers a few
questions rip, if you have any others lemme know
Rain runoff from solar project
frangram - 10-1-2010 at 11:04 AM
I have followed this project for some time, my only major concern is that the project will by paving quite a large area with access rods and
maintenance roads. This could possible effect rainwater absorption and effect the amount of runoff to the lake bed. If I can find the amount of sq.
footage again that will be covered I will post it.
