On our Amtrak trip through southern and central California, I watched the dry and irrigated fields fly by me at 133km/h. We stopped for the night in Bakersfield (the most conservative city in America, some figures show), and it was 41 degrees even with the sun down. The cement around the pool at night warmed my feet as if the hot sun was beating down on it only a moment earlier.
This large solar farm appears to be the one mentioned in this story about a Hanford Dairy.
Los Angeles oil production. You can see how dry it is there.
Hills covered with wind turbines north of Oakland.
Metal tends to rust near the ocean:
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff 