I read a report on the efforts of the Lakota to start a wind farm. Here is a quickie on their awesome wind resource: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/951198-QqTMUr/

It turns out that there is one one 115 kv line that goes through the Lakota lands, and that goes from the Missouri River (a dam run by the US Army Corps of Engineering) into Nebraska. NPPD owns the line, and are the customers for the electricity. The Lakota were trying to get the wind based electricity down to 2.9 c/kw-hr to meet the maximum price NPPD would tolerate. They came close but couldn't quite get there.

NPPD could have upped their price a touch to make up for past genocide, but no dice. So, no Lakota wind farm as there is just no way to get the electriciy product off to market. Oh well...

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