[BC] Power distribution in the NE

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From: "Glen Kippel"
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> How come the whole state isn't one big wind farm?  ,<g>
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Some days it feels like it ;-)

(Chamber of Commerce hat) To the north of Douglas, Northeast Wyo sits on the 
nation's largest coal reserves, & we're digging 'em up & shipping 'em out as 
fast as we can. It's all strip mines, and they're required to count the sage 
brush before they start digging, and plant'em back afterwards... *very* 
stringent reclamation requirements.

Converse County (home sweet home) sits on some of the nation's largest 
power-grade uranium reserves... if nuke ever kicks up again, we'll be golden 
(and no, we don't glow in the dark).

Still lots of oil here, although the big booms were in the '50's.

And yes, there's that geyser thing up in the Park that somebody's going to 
put a hydrothermal faucet on one of these days...


When they put the Arlington project online, a lot of that power was shipped 
to Eugene, OR. Turn on the lights courtesy of Wyoming wind.

We've traditionally sent the coal & oil elsewhere to power plants out of 
state. Now the push is to get the high power lines built so that we can keep 
the power plants and the jobs here in-state. Projects are in various stages 
now to build lines to Denver & the Front Range, Phoenix, and SoCal. Glen, 
we'll be running your air conditioning before long if things work out ;-)

Uniquely, Wyoming finally broke 500 thousand residents for just the second 
time this past year. We are, indeed, the big square empty state. Nobody 
wants to live here because of the wind ;-)


Enough for tonight's travelougue... it's past my bedtime.

DennisSwitzer
KKTY AM/FM
Douglas, WY