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<blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 297608" data-attributes="member: 3373">I have no idea the route my electricity takes to arrive at my home or who supplies the power. I do know my electric comes from a Minnesota company, Otter Tail Power Company. This company serves much of North Dakota I believe. It was a pretty economical electric bill until they began adding on the &quot;Energy Tax.&quot;So, if ND was to demand all the transmission lines that run from ND to Minn, where would the power come from? Seems to be kind of a Catch-22. Drove the Bismarck yesterday, round trip of about 400 miles. Passed several wind farms and with the calm winds there was barely a wind turbine turning. Very reliable power it seems.Also heard a radio program during the trip where Carbon collection was the discussion. There are companies working on collection the excess Carbon and actually trying to develop a use for that Carbon to the point where money could be made from selling that collected Carbon. One thing that I would like to know is how much actual pollution do these coal plants produce. They've been in exsistence for many years and never notice any visible clouds of pollution, etc. Drive in LA and you can actually see the pollution in the air on many days. Is it actually a problem in this sate considering the improvement that have been made to make coal burning cleaner?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired Educator, post: 297608, member: 3373"] I have no idea the route my electricity takes to arrive at my home or who supplies the power. I do know my electric comes from a Minnesota company, Otter Tail Power Company. This company serves much of North Dakota I believe. It was a pretty economical electric bill until they began adding on the "Energy Tax." So, if ND was to demand all the transmission lines that run from ND to Minn, where would the power come from? Seems to be kind of a Catch-22. Drove the Bismarck yesterday, round trip of about 400 miles. Passed several wind farms and with the calm winds there was barely a wind turbine turning. Very reliable power it seems. Also heard a radio program during the trip where Carbon collection was the discussion. There are companies working on collection the excess Carbon and actually trying to develop a use for that Carbon to the point where money could be made from selling that collected Carbon. One thing that I would like to know is how much actual pollution do these coal plants produce. They've been in exsistence for many years and never notice any visible clouds of pollution, etc. Drive in LA and you can actually see the pollution in the air on many days. Is it actually a problem in this sate considering the improvement that have been made to make coal burning cleaner? [/QUOTE]

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