What is the "National Transmission Super Highway" ?

[Dary]

President Obama stated in his speech before signing the stimulus...

"... and it's an investment that takes the important first step towards a national transmission super highway that will connect our cities to the windy plains of the Dakotas and the sunny deserts of the southwest."

Is he referring to expanding internet access or is he referring to the NAFTA super highway or the Trans-Texas Corridor?

Maybe an electric grid???

It's gotta be a green electric grid (Sun and wind)...

Nevermind.

 

[acptulsa]

Strange. Though transmissions aren't strangers to highways, the use of the word makes it sound like an electronic thing. That said, he surely does outline the physical route, doesn't he? And that isn't the usual 'California to Maine' type of thing you usually hear when someone wants to emphasize that what they're talking about is 'bad and nationwide'.

 

[Johnnybags]

Electrical grid with wind/solar etc all tied together

I believe.

 

[s35wf]

President Obama stated in his speech before signing the stimulus...

"... and it's an investment that takes the important first step towards a national transmission super highway that will connect our cities to the windy plains of the Dakotas and the sunny deserts of the southwest."

Is he referring to expanding internet access or is he referring to the NAFTA super highway or the Trans-Texas Corridor?

Maybe an electric grid???

It's gotta be a green electric grid (Sun and wind)...

Nevermind.

With the amount of $ in stimulus bill tied to infrastructure and roads; id say it was the NAFTA Highway (or whatever they're calling it now)

 

[MsDoodahs]

What is the "National Transmission Super Highway" ?

A boondoggle?

 

[Cap]

I believe he's talking about a National Power Grid.

 

[Truth Warrior]

A boondoggle?

You're cheating, you peeked.

 

[Zippyjuan]

He is talking about high speed internet for everybody. And no- I am not joking.
http://www.speedmatters.org/blog/obama-promises-high-speed.html

Obama promises big high speed Internet push
Posted by Speed Matters team | June 26, 2008 |

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to press for a national high speed Internet policy.

In a speech earlier this month on technology and the economy in Michigan, Obama pledged to "double federal funding for basic research and make the R&D tax credit permanent. We can ensure that the discoveries of the 21st century happen in America." Importantly, he reiterated his outspoken support for universal high speed Internet access:

"It is unacceptable that here, in the country that invented the Internet, we fell to 15th in the world in broadband deployment. When kids in downtown Flint or rural Iowa can't afford or access high speed Internet, that sets back America's ability to compete."

Obama was audacious in his vision for a digitally connected U.S.

"As president, I will set a simple goal: every American should have the highest speed broadband access -- no matter where you live, or how much money you have. We'll connect schools, libraries and hospitals."

In conferences and policy papers, the Obama campaign has previously stressed high speed Internet, arguing that technological access helps provide the skills necessary to compete in a global economy. But by taking the argument directly to voters in Michigan, the state with the highest levels of unemployment, he sought to tie the need for high speed Internet to economic prosperity for all.

Obama said his perspective was focused on the long-term. Though there would be a financial cost to implementing his policies, Obama conceded, he stressed that these important infrastructure investments would pay major dividends for the economy as a whole.

OK- on reading a bit closer (you did not link any article with context for the quote which would have helped)- part of where he was to sign the bill was at a museum in Denver which has solar panels. He went to Colorado because they are one of the leading states in pushing for using alternative energy. That is what he was talking about there. Energy from alternative sources and a transmission source to move it around say from wind or solar farms to other areas. I'll still leave in the internet thing- he has been talking about that a little lately too.