The claimed largest photovoltaic solar system has gone into operation at Nellis Air Force Base, on the northern edge of Las Vegas, NV. The 14 megawatt system will provide 25% of the base’s power requirements.

I put up these pictures because I spent 3 great years flying F-16s out of Nellis back in the mid 80′s. Things were a lot different then. In the squadron we had a Wang word processor the size of a washing machine. Flight planning was done by hand and there was no GPS. The F-16 did, though have some pretty slick bomb dropping and navigation technology, at least for that era. So without any further ado, here are some pictures courtesy of cleantech.com nellis-solar-system.jpgnellis-from_above.jpgnellis-pattern.jpgnellis-vegas.jpg