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Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario
An anonymous reader writes "Air cooled by the frigid waters deep in Lake Ontario started bringing relief to buildings in downtown Toronto on Tuesday after the valves were symbolically opened on the multi-million-dollar project. The company says that they have the capacity to air condition 100 office buildings or 8,000 homes - the equivalent of 32 million square feet of building space. They note that the cooling system reduces energy usage, freeing up megawatts from the Ontario's electrical grid, minimizes ozone-depleting refrigerants and reduces the amount of carbon dioxide entering the air."
...like the water in the lakes is now warming up due to the use as a coolant. Millions of fish will be 1.4 degrees warmer now that it's being used to cool those pesky human habitats.
Do I hear anyone screaming "Global Lake Warming"? I'm sure we will soon.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
My mother is a big wheel on the windmill project (3 HUGE $6,000,000 windmills each to power 100 homes)... the thing is the government mucked around so much with subsidies that is is kind of questionable...
Basically if they bought power from the government and then sold it back to them they could make infinite money...
Buying for more than what you sell it for doesn't make much sense even if it's ecco friendly.
But hey maybe this will pay for itself.
Just 2cents.
> OK, here is a google link to the report.
Thanks.
> Anything else you need spoon-fed to you?
No, but I'd love to spoon feed you some 'normal behavior' and 'politeness'. You seem to need them a bit.