A much smaller crowd of South Dakota State Fair-goers stayed after a debate with South Dakota’s US House candidates to hear what the two men running for the Public Utilities Commission had to say on issues from spills along the Keystone Pipeline to carbon credits Saturday afternoon. When asked about a way to store wind power, Democratic Challenger Doyle Karpen thinks hydrogen fuel cells would be an option…
Republican Incumbent Dusty Johnson says he’s dissapointed with a lack of research and development into storage technology….
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2010/09/johnson.mp3|titles=johnson]Johnson says South Dakota’s low utility rates are good in most ways, but that it does prevent companies from developing such storage technologies. Johnson believes cost effective battery technology will be developed on the nations coasts where energy costs are substantially higher.