New NDRC and Google Map Tool to Guide Solar, Wind Placement

Where should new solar and wind power facilities go? Seems many of the best potential sites, including rugged, windswept regions in the Rocky Mountains to the sun-baked Mojave Desert, contain swathes of land legally set aside as national parks, or support what remains of an endangered species' dwindling habitat, for example. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=google-guides-solar-sites-2009-04-07