In Ivanpah Valley, Calif. — Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million years ago and has since remained resolutely prehistoric. How this creature the size of a shoe box became the single-biggest obstacle to industrial-scale solar development in the Mojave Desert is turning into a true story of the survival of the fittest. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections? Tweet --> Personal Post At the $2.2 billion BrightSource Energy solar farm in the Ivanpah Valley, the...
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