Joseph Minnis: Plant solar panels and get year-round income
There is a new crop for you farmers. This crop doesn’t have all the problems you have now – a shortage of bees, labor and water problems.
The crop is solar. Just plant metal poles in place of crops. On top of these poles, put solar panels, year-round income!
There are 5,000 acres on the West Side that would make a great solar plant. You will only need security to guard this new crop. Ship product by wire. If Mother Nature is planing on turning the valley back into a desert, you will be sitting pretty! Without this valley, Los Angeles will have to go to desalination. Plant desert plants to hold down dust and dirt under panels. The rest of us can move back to Oklahoma!
Change is the only thing we can always count on in this life.
Joseph Minnis, Modesto
This story was originally published April 30, 2015 at 4:49 PM with the headline "Joseph Minnis: Plant solar panels and get year-round income."