We have not been using our existing resources efficiently. We should have developed the technologies long ago and improved on those. With the possibility if we had been that would lead to even possible other sources or even more efficient use of the existing and development of new. With that technology and the tools to produce being exported to others.
03/31/2011 - Seventy government-owned dams, canals, tunnels and other water projects could generate enough electricity to power 85,000 households, the Interior Department has determined, in its search for alternative energy sources.
Scattered across 17 Western states, the predominately rural sites together could generate a million megawatts of electricity a year, Anne Castle, Interior's assistant secretary for water and science, said Thursday.
After a detailed study of 530 government-owned dams and similar facilities, the department's Bureau of Reclamation judged 70 of them to be economically feasible for power production.
If the sites are developed to generate electricity, they also would produce 1,200 new jobs, without building new dams, Castle said during a press conference. {continued}
Bureau of Reclamation: Hydro Assessment Report
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