Opinion: A genuine Big Idea that could fix the border problem
By Mitch Daniels Mitch Daniels Contributing columnist Bio Contributing columnist May 3 Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana.
Almost all share the common denominator of absurd impracticality. They have given us a new definition of the admirable adjective “aspirational,” now taken to mean “I know it’s preposterous, so don’t hold me to it.” Any idea this big faces daunting feasibility questions, but the proponents have spent a fair amount of time thinking through and costing out their plan. They seem on unchallengeable ground that the border regions of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are as conducive to solar and wind power as virtually any place on Earth. Nearby, potentially enormous natural-gas deposits could complement the renewable energy and provide power day and night.
Alongside the solar farm, the consortium imagines a network of wind turbines, taking advantage of some of Earth’s windiest geography. The turbines’ annual 1.2 gigawatts of energy, powering two reverse-osmosis desalination facilities, could provide more than 2 million acre-feet of water per year, covering, for example, the annual commercial and agricultural consumption of Texas.
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