I tried to dig up the article as to not quote specs out of my ass... but, as of yet, I can't find it... I found someone else referencing something fairly similar to what I read.

Blah blah blah... Anyway, what I remembered reading was that if we covered roughly 10% of Nevada's land area (the other post I found claimed it was 10% of Nevada's Federal land, so even less) with Solar Thermal collectors, we could roughly meet the current contiguous US energy demand. Now, I remember not being able to find out whether they took transmission losses (among other things) into that figure, so that's why I said roughly.

So, since the interconnect is happening in Sun Central, I could envision good things happening in that area in the way of business and industry since it's also the logical place to build sizable Solar Thermal plants.

Here's to hoping we plan to move towards the future.