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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."
You'd think that for a group that uses RTFM and RTFA somebody would read some of the posts already there.
By the time you get to end of the posts (If you haven't actually lost the will to live, that is) you realise that there have only been seperate thoughts on this:
1) Go here for links....
2) What about heating the lake up....
3) RTFA....
4) What about lake turnover....
5) Turnover couldn't happen here....
Good Lord, save your typing for something original!
Wenzenbach, Germany - Having found the AVI video format lacking, GNAA decided to search for a hot new container format, for use in releases of all GNAA video, including upcoming subtitled versions of Gayniggers From Outer Space.
GNAA president and A/V wizard timecop immediately turned to the opensource commmunity, the first place anyone would look for high-quality, well-supported software. A few Google searches later, he stumbled across the Matroska container format, and it was love at first sight.
"I've alyways supported open standards, and I was really excited once I found them. [Matroska] It's basically another competing media container format, like AVI, an envelope in which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie in one single file. This ensures that the audio and video can be played in most media players. As long as they manage to download the libraries and DirectShow filters needed, compile them, and then you're good to go." said timecop. "Of course, you can't demux all the streams in a .mkv, so it's less than worthless, but I mean, this is a
format Gay Niggers can really get behind. There are at least 4 developers
working on it, and TENS of users release video in .mkv format."
Upon finding that the sole distribution site for the sources he needed was down, timecop delightedly added "welcome ot openfuckingsource." Upon discovering that the latest version of the source wouldn't work properly under Windows, he congradulated the developers on sticking it to "The Man" [Bill Gates], adding "I assumed people around here had enough sense to give up on dead alternative OS's [Windows] around the time BeOS took a trip down the shitter."
GNAA member godspeed added "ROFL. Matroska is developed by Gay Niggers, how can we, the GNAA, not support it? We've been searching for a container format that has the feature that once you put something into it, you can never ever take it back out except for playback, so Matroska meets our needs perfectly. FRIST POST!!!!1one"
Matroska developers were busy writing a multimedia framework for BeOS and not available for comment.
About Matroska
Matroska aims to become THE Standard of Multimedia Container Formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on GBML (Gay Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. GBML contains all the useless features of XML in a obscure and overengineered binary format, impossible to parse without obfuscated binary parser libs, and definitely not "human readable". GBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility without breaking file support in old parsers and allows them to push the limits of the gay video frontier. Some of the notable video codecs which have been used with Matroska include "RealVideo9" and "XVID".
Stated goals include creating and documenting a modern, flexible, cross-platform compatible Audio/Video container format, in combination with an open codec API, to form a free and open media framework, as well as establishing Matroska as the opensource alternative to existing containers such as AVI, ASF, MOV, RM, MP4, and MPG, however due to limited developer time, all current efforts are focused on getting Matroska running under BeOS. "Who needs to use a format everyone can already use, which is well supported by ALL modern OSes? Our opensource shitfest will soon replace the well-established, useful container formats."
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.
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What are the envirnmental effects of this? Have they been considered?
A warmer lake will lead to more lake effect snows in Buffalo and Cleveland. These cities will have to absorb the cost in snow removal. Also, is disturbing the lakes natural thermocline good for fish and wildlife? Walleyes need cold water. Who says lake Ontario's heat is Canada's to use? Half of it belongs to the U.S.
an ill wind that blows no good
...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.
Who the hell cares what Canada is doing. They are already proved to be assholes with motherfucking attitude problem.
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.
Canada is an extreme socialist state. So much so that it has become a threat to the United States. They are legalizing gay marriage (a massive threat to families), they are legalizing marijuana (a threat to children) and they do not support the USA when we go to war to defend ourselves. I think it is up to all of us here in the USA to boycott Canadian goods until they adopt a social and economic model that more closely matches our own.
> 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.