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RE: Baldwin : "crushing ignorance in the United States"
I grew up in Detroit, with weather similar to that in Toronto. Air conditioning was not essential as long as you could open the windows, but nice to have. At the most, it is desirable in the summer months, but spring and fall are tolerable without it.
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> From: "Baratta, Edmond J" <EBARATTA@ORA.FDA.GOV>
> Date: 2004/08/18 Wed AM 10:26:12 EDT
> To: "'Franta, Jaroslav'" <frantaj@AECL.CA>,
> "Radsafe (E-mail)"
> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>,
> "Multiple (E-mail)"
> <cdn-nucl-l@mailman1.cis.mcmaster.ca>
> Subject: RE: Baldwin : "crushing ignorance in the United States"
>
> Big deal!! There is an apartment complex in my Town that has been doing
> that for over three decades. It works, except in very warm weather when it
> is not as efficient.
>
> Edmond J. Baratta
> Radiation Safety Officer
> Tel. No. 781-729-5700, ext 728
> FAX: 781-729-3593
>
> The above is my opinion and not that of my Agency.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franta, Jaroslav [mailto:frantaj@AECL.CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:55 AM
> To: Radsafe (E-mail); Multiple (E-mail)
> Subject: Baldwin : "crushing ignorance in the United States"
>
> As you know, actor Alec Baldwin is also a supporter of the Tooth Fairy
> Project, another magnificent pillar in the battle against crushing
> ignorance.....
> The project itself seems like a good idea -- it remains to be seen what Lake
> Ontario's zebra mussels think of it, and whether Enwave's "hopes of starting
> to earn a return on its deep-lake investment by 2008" will not be dashed
> (not to say "crushed") by shortened equipment life (as opposed to
> ignorance).....
> Jaro
> http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Project sends a chill through downtown;
> Deep lake water cooling begins Actor helps launch innovative system
> The Toronto Star, Wed 18 Aug 2004
> John Spears and Bruce DeMara
> Toronto has launched its project to cool downtown buildings with cold lake
> water on a torrent of hot air.
> Dozens of civic and business leaders jammed a stuffy room at the Steam
> Whistle Brewery yesterday to hear a seemingly endless string of politicians
> and notables, headlined by actor Alec Baldwin, laud the Deep Lake Water
> Cooling Project.
> "What's being announced here is a miracle," gushed Baldwin.
> The miracle cost $169.6 million, the money being used to construct three
> pipes thrusting 5 kilometres into Lake Ontario. Cold water is pumped from
> the bottom and sent on to a heat-transfer station, where it cools water in a
> separate network of pipes flowing into the air-conditioning systems of some
> of Toronto's biggest office buildings. The treated lake water - now warmed
> by one or two degrees - then flows into the city's drinking water pipes.
> (Don't expect your drinking water to get warmer because of the project. If
> anything, it'll be colder, because water from the normal, shallower intake
> pipes serving the city is typically at 12 to 15C, according to Dennis
> Fotinos, chief executive of Enwave District Energy Ltd.)
> The project is the child of Enwave, owned 43 per cent by the City of Toronto
> and 57 per cent by the OMERS pension fund. As of yesterday, it's cooling 20
> buildings, including the Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto-Dominion Centre and Air
> Canada Centre. But that represents only 32 per cent of the system's
> capacity, Fotinos said. Clients include the Steam Whistle Brewery, although
> Fotinos laughingly acknowledged that the air conditioning seemed to have
> gone missing yesterday as the temperature climbed in the crowded room.
> "It's a small glitch; we'll get to the bottom of it," he said. Enwave is
> already in talks with the Sheraton Centre, Bell Trinity Centre and Old City
> Hall to add them. Ironically, the city is not looking to add the new city
> hall to Enwave's client list, since it only recently overhauled its
> conventional cooling system.
> But Enwave is talking with the province about running a new $14 million pipe
> north to Queen's Park so lake water could cool the Legislature and nearby
> government buildings. Signing Queen's Park would bring the portion of
> cooling capacity in use to more than 50 per cent, boosting Enwave's hopes of
> starting to earn a return on its deep-lake investment by 2008.
> "I look forward to the day when we sign the deal," said Ontario Energy
> Minister Dwight Duncan, who has promised to cut his government's own power
> usage by 10 per cent. "Not only will this deep lake water cooling project
> save the province 59 megawatts of capacity - the equivalent amount of
> electricity required to power 12,000 air-conditioned homes - it also stands
> as a shining example of the enormous potential we see for energy-efficiency
> programs and for alternative forms of energy."
> Federal Human Resources Minister Joe Volpe came bearing gifts a $10 million
> low-interest loan for Enwave.
> Baldwin, who has long campaigned for alternative energy in his native New
> York state, heaped praise on everyone involved, hailing them as "heroes." He
> also slammed businesses that are lobbying the province to back away from its
> commitment to shut down Ontario's coal-burning power plants by 2007. And he
> praised Canadian governments for backing the project. "For something like
> this to succeed," he said, "you have to have a government that's not sitting
> on top of you and crushing you with their ignorance, like we have in the
> United States right now."
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