[Big Dave]

Y'know I'm all for more T&D infrastructure. That has been as neglected as much as anything else in the US. A couple thousand miles of T&D would be A-OK with me.

But if you tried it there would be at least ten years of red tape and litigation before the first tower was built.

If Cape Wind and Altamont Pass have been tangled up in litigation for years, do you not think this battle has to refought again and again?

The only sites I can see for pumped storage are in the Appalachians. In the West water is for fightin' over and in beteen it is too flat.