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Cooling Toronto Using Lake Ontario

Posted by michael on from the cool-running dept.

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."

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  1. I was going to ask about that... by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 5, Funny

    but then I had a better question: Can it cool my 64-bit prescott?

    1. Re:I was going to ask about that... by buro9 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, to cool a prescott you need to use the water around glaciers.

    2. Re:I was going to ask about that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And if you overclock your city, does it void the warrantee?

  2. In a related story... by hazman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Natural Laws. by MrKane · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    1. Re:Natural Laws. by Avian+visitor · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unit for Cold anyone?

      The theory of cold is just a part of thermodynamic theory of darkness .

      The unit for cold is derived from unit for darkness and equals D.s, where D is unit for darkness and s is second.

  4. Re:Environmental effects by bhima · · Score: 5, Funny
    You should join Greenpeace!

    I've never seen such a concentration of good looking impressionable young ladies in my life. It's well worth the effort!

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  5. Re:Environmental effects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "the water's cold will be extracted"

    Hahahahahaha. Perhaps they can keep these rooms lit by extracting the dark from them.

  6. Re:Environmental effects by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you know, now we ARE paying to heat the outside. My dad will flip his wig when he hears about this.

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  7. Sure it can, but... by Inominate · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Environmental effects by uberdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have to keep our igloos from melting during the blistering summer heat somehow.

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  9. I tried that by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually got a darkness pump, but it was so noisy I had to buy a silence generator.

    RMN
    ~~~

  10. Re:Mod parent down - untrue by Nept · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know I'll get modded down for this, but I just had to reply to your sig.

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