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[cdn-nucl-l] Fw: Windmill power generation at PNGS
The Pickering Town council approved it!
----- Original Message -----
From: <hughesj@songs.sce.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ans-pie" <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Windmill power generation
>
> Information from the internet:
>
http://www.cityofpickering.com/standard/cityhall/council_meetings/agenda_min
utes/com06042001.html
>
> John Hughes
>
> "Jerry Cuttler"
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> I heard that Ontario Power Generation is planning to build the world
> largest
> windmill at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
> I wonder if there was an environmental review for this project.
> Is an environmental review generally carried out for windmill projects?
> Many Canada geese live there.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <AtomicRod@aol.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ans-pie" <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: None
>
>
> > Interesting. Last night I happened to catch some of a baseball game
being
> > played between the Orioles and Blue Jays up in Toronto. There was a huge
> > swarm of aphids that made the fans and the players extremely agitated.
> The
> > pictures looked like it was raining heavily, but in random directions.
> >
> > Wonder what it would cost to clean up after such an invasion if you have
> a
> > field of hundreds of windmills with 150 ft long blades?
> >
> > Rod Adams
> >
> > In a message dated 8/3/01 2:52:19 PM, TCPRICE@apsc.com writes:
> >
> > >FYI Trivia from our onsite newsletter. Wonder if any endangered bugs
> are affected?
> > >
> > >Thursday's Question: Power generation at even the most advanced wind
> farms
> > >
> > >can fluctuate mysteriously by as much as 25 percent. According to a
> recent
> > >
> > >study by European scientists, what causes this drop in efficiency?
> > >
> > >Answer: : European scientists point to an unlikely culprit: Bugs.
> Thousands
> > >
> > >of insects fly to their deaths against the big blades that span 150
feet
> > >and
> > >
> > >spin like a giant blender.
>