We’ve got vast oil and gas supplies. We should be utilizing our enormous hydroelectric potential and nuclear to power industry so we can be a major exporter and the rest of the world can kiss our butts.
Spot-on!
A small local city just tapped into the Ohio River for power and is building the plant 60 miles away in Kentucky!
Meldahl Hydroelectric Project
http://www.hamilton-city.org/index.aspx?page=653
The City of Hamilton, Ohio, and its partner, American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP), together hold a license issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to develop a new, renewable energy, hydroelectric generating facility, called the Meldahl Hydroelectric Project. The Meldahl Project is located on the Ohio River, approximately 40 miles east of Cincinnati, at Foster, Kentucky, near Augusta, Kentucky.