Subj : Re: Forget a hosepipe ban
To   : RUG RAT
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sat Aug 23 2025 08:44 am

RM> Also, there are lots of power plants that use water driven turbines
RM> without heat, so much of that here that our power company is called
RM> Ontario Hydro (or Hydro One).

RR>Not sure about Canada, but in the US I can not think of any new dam projects
  >ng approved anywhere, as there has been a big enviromental backlash with the
  >truction of natural habitates creating the lake.

Yes, it's much more difficult to get that approved these days. In some
places where you have a large river with a high falls naturally, they
can go in and just add the trubines with minimal damage, but sites
like that are rare. (Think - the power plant at Niagara Falls..)

That's mainly for big ones though. In Parry Sound, the closest small
town to me, they recently added a power turbine to a good sized
river that was already somewhat dammed many years ago to protect the
area from flooding during spring runoff and storms and such, which
adds some power to the grid.

Hmm.. Checking.. Apparently there was a smaller one there since
1919 that was rebuilt and puts out 3.1 megawatts of power, up
from the original 1.2 MW. But it's a quite small unit, not much
bigger than a couple of 2 car garages.

I've also heard about other Hydro electric plants in Canada that
run unattended with people only occasionally stopping in to check
on them to do whatever maintenance is needed. They have been
running virtually non stop for so long the power coming out of
them has to be converted from 25 cycle to 60 cycle before it can
be put back in the system. We haven't used 25 cycle power here
since the mid 1950's..

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