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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."
but then I had a better question: Can it cool my 64-bit prescott?
Cool!!!
Halliburton, Bechtel and General Electric have signed a multi-billion dollar deal to refrigerate the waters of Lake Ontario.
The temperature of the lake has inexplicably begun to rise. Algae blooms, moss growing on surronding trees and Corona beer bottles scattered on the shore have alarmed the Canadian Department of the Interior to take swift, albeit expensive action the save the ecosystem of the lake.
John St. Pumping Station has obviously found some way of overcoming The Second Law of Thermodynamics as:
'the water's cold will be extracted and used to lower the temperature in downtown buildings'.
Unit for Cold anyone?
But... but... what is the environmental effect? If they warm up the drinking water by several degrees, it could have lots of unforeseen consequences! I say, we should immediately shut down the project to be on the safe side.
I've never seen such a concentration of good looking impressionable young ladies in my life. It's well worth the effort!
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
At least they don't periodically beat dead horses...
"the water's cold will be extracted"
Hahahahahaha. Perhaps they can keep these rooms lit by extracting the dark from them.
They just heat the drinking water from cooling the buildings, just to put the now warmer drinking water in to the fridge?
RTFA! They don't take the water at all. They only take the coldness.
A warmer lake will lead to more lake effect snows in ... Cleveland.
Wrong lake. Cleveland is on Lake Erie. Perhaps you're thinking of Rochester.
Fools! the lot of you!!! do you not realise that stirring water raises it's temperature!?!?! think of all those boats stirring the water with their propellors!!! IT'S A CATASTROPHE WAITING TO HAPPEN!! i mean come on.. a few 1/10,000 of a degree in water that's being polluted, on a world that is suffering from global warming - yeh that's gonna destroy the world...
What do you know, now we ARE paying to heat the outside. My dad will flip his wig when he hears about this.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
> We get our drinking water from Lake Ontario. All of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area),
> including the City of Toronto, York Region, Durham, Peel etc, use water pumped from the lake.
> Our sewage is sent back down to Toronto, where it is treated before being dumped back into the lake.
<Catch 22> So why don't you eliminate the middleman? </Catch 22>
My only question is what happens to algae growth if the lake warms up even a couple of degrees?
I, for one, welcome our new over-grown algae overlords...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Well if you are going to beat a horse it is better that you beat a dead one. If you beat a live one you'll get the SPCA and PETA all up in arms and screeching about cruelty to animals.
While the cooling of the city of Toronto might have no noticable effect on the lake, your prescott will likely cause the lake to mostly boil off.
Interesting how God made the natural habitat of fish in such a way that the critters don't get frozen with the rest of the lake in winter, eh?
(Sorry for the Anonymous Coward thing, I just created my account & am blocked from my personal e-mail at work so can't get the password. Signed, Kaydet81)
Yup, we think differently, therefore we *must* be evil...
We have to keep our igloos from melting during the blistering summer heat somehow.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
I actually got a darkness pump, but it was so noisy I had to buy a silence generator.
RMN
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I know I'll get modded down for this, but I just had to reply to your sig.
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Please stop buying our water, Oil, Nuclear Reactors and Electricity.
Thank you.
Continue buying our music, movies, grains, beef and lumber as normal.