Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.

FORBES: Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border

Between 2007 and 2009, a solar land rush in California and the desert Southwest resulted in scores of developers putting lease claims on more than a million acres of property controlled by the United States Bureau of Land Management.

FORBES: Obama Administration to Put Solar and Wind Lands off Limits to Mining