I’m sure when most of us think of wind power, we envision a lot of windmills in a giant flat plain, with the wind howling away. However, all those plains are in the West, not the lumpy, bumpy eastern third of the United States where I grew up. Ever thought about what to do with the wind energy, or how to transport it to the East?
Next on the agenda of green energy is high-voltage transmission lines. John Carey at BusinessWeek reported on whether or not the U.S. should subsidize high-energy voltage lines for Green energy. Harry Reid – when he’s not working on a healthcare bill – likes the idea, and wants to expand the power line system to transport wind energy, and more importantly for a politician like Reid, to create jobs in Nevada, his constituent state.
Who pays for this?
