San Francisco Chronicle: With billions of dollars in federal stimulus money in hand, the Obama administration set out five years ago on a grand experiment in the California desert.
The goal: Open public lands to renewable-energy development to wean the nation from fossil fuels.
The results haven't been pretty, a fact the administration has tacitly acknowledged by devising a new plan, expected to be released this month, to find better places to put industrial-scale solar farms in the California desert.
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