A little over a decade ago, California built a state-of-the-art $2.2 billion solar farm project in the Mojave Desert. Obama Administration loan guarantees paid for about 75% of its cost. If there is ANY place where solar should work, it would be here. It was heralded as THE green energy project of the future.

But that money is down the green energy drain with the news that the Ivanpah Solar Project is closing next year. It not only never produced its promised energy, but needed to rely on natural gas to keep operating. That sounds a lot like America writ large.