[Lakeshark]

They are going to take a dam out up here, one that could have been a decent producer of power. It will leave a muddy mess when they do, but they’ll surely make up for it with the pretty windmills they install.........

[jwsea55]

I wonder if the dams were put there for any reason originally?

[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?