Energy
Leaders from two Indian tribes joined protesters who want to protect a desert area where BrightSource Energy wants to build the world’s largest system of mirrors to create heat to drive turbines for generating electricity.
Nearly 30 policymakers and private investors met Tuesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to discuss boosting the renewable-energy sector.
ROACH DRY LAKE — Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.
