[cripplecreek]

Is that the Boardman dam?

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/massive_boardman_river_dam_rem.html

This crap needs to be stopped. We have hundreds of dams in Michigan that could be producing power (Many once did) and the environmentals on both sides of the aisle can’t tear them out fast enough.

Meanwhile in the heart of Michigan liberalism they are actually going to use the existing dams. Here is the feasibility study.

http://www.a2gov.org/government/publicservices/systems_planning/Environment/hrimp/Documents/Final%20Stantec%20Report%20-%20no%20appendices.pdf

I wonder how often windmills run above capacity?

[Lakeshark]

Yep, the Boardman. I heard a guy talk about it a few years ago, how he had shown everyone involved how they could use the dam to generate power with the existing components (he was an electrical engineer), and how the greenies just ran him over.

Having lived by Ann Arbor once upon a time, I'm floored they are doing this. Has it finally happened?