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wes h.
Sioux Falls, SD     11/06/2009 7:56 AM

This article is just as I commented about the earlier Globe article about the Big Stone project being dropped. I saw a report on Fox and also in Wikipedia that the Obama administration is killing the Yucca mountain nuclear waste storage site. Another example of Obama's disconnect with reality. Though clean coal generation is important for now nuclear power is the best option for clean dependable generation. For wind or solar to be practical as a primary generation source some method of storage has to be found. I read some time back that they were experimenting with using batteries but I would doubt that will prove practical on a large scale. I think it might be possible for that wind energy could be combined with hydro power. Smaller dams could be build below dams such as Fort Randall or Oahe to creat another reservoir. Wind generation could be used to pump the water from the lower reservoir to the upper and at times with no wind the water could be released back down to the lower reservoir while making hydro power electricity. That still wouldn't be enough to power the country which is where nuclear and coal plants come in. There is also concern that dams and wind generation have adverse ecological effects that can damage fish and wildlife populations so I don't know how far we want to go with that either.