Entrepreneur Has Big, Green Ideas For A New Little Town
SFG.com:
Quay Hays thinks big, and he has a knack for getting others – particularly people with money – to think big with him.
The 50-year-old entrepreneur has repeatedly managed to get Hollywood celebrities and other investors to join his ventures. Some were qualified successes, others dramatically less so: One company went bankrupt; another venture burned through nearly a million dollars before defaulting on a credit line; a third closed because it was unprofitable.
Some call him a visionary. Others say he’s a smooth talker who has a history of promising more than he can deliver.
Now Hays is pushing his biggest idea yet: A new, solar-powered town of 150,000 people on flat fields and grazing land along a desolate stretch of Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley. In Hays‘ utopian vision, no resident would ever pay an electric bill, homes would feature the latest technological innovations and commuters would drive energy-efficient cars, possibly supplied at low cost by General Motors. More.
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