Lance Jungmeyer has an interesting idea over at This is my USA: "As the United States moves toward more renewable energy, I'm reminded of the legacy of the Homestead Act, which gave able-bodied Americans 160 acres of government-owned land and a mule as long as they developed the property.

Now, the U.S. government long ago gave away all the decent farmland, and the Homestead Act was finally put to rest with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.

But I think of the huge swaths of land in the West that are basically desert, good for nothing - except solar. If the government were to organize one section of this land, and offer the land for free, along with federal loans to develop solar power, there might be a good reason to renew the Homestead Act."

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