If we still had Wynne, she would pay you to put in a solar farm or windmill instead. No one could fight it.
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If we still had Wynne, she would pay you to put in a solar farm or windmill instead. No one could fight it.
Mad Mike
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The creek in my yard has Red Side Dace in the creek. 15 years ago the province outlawed cutting anything 30' from the banks, today the bush is so thick it's nearly impossible to know there is a 20'wide watercourse hiding in there.
Useless trivia, but applicable. For anybody that has visited the Kelso conservation area where Glen Eden ski hill is, that property was originally a working farm and the barns which still exist as Halton Museum and offices for the park had a year round "spring well " being at the base of the escarpment and the original farmer had a cascade system that provided running water in the barns and house and ran a DC generator off a turbine screw in a pipe. He had the first electricfied house and barn in the Milton area.
Trials
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They use satellite now,
and ya'll missed the point that you don't need to build a dam, the glaciers already did that for you, you're only going to let a very small percentage of surface water in one area flow slowly for a few feet before you let it fall 6 feet back into the natural river it came from. A big head of water does nothing for you, you don't need to build a dam to hold water back, one lake already sits higher then the rest of the land and the next lake, you are only harvesting the natural fall of water across your land where gravity provides the power, It's a 100% ecologically clean method of producing a small amount of hydro electric power, provided you have a sufficient volume of surface water that drops in elevation as it flows across your property.
Brings back a lot of memories. In the 70's i had an apartment in Milton and stored my bikes in a friend's garage on Kelso Rd just before the park. There was all kinds of places to ride. The quarry just down Tremaine Rd, into the park and up the ski hill to the little quarry or onto the escarpment. If i was chased it was a quick blast to the garage. They never caught me. Great speckled fishing in his backyard too.
Mad Mike
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They do. Towns use a lot of aerial surveillance these days. I needed a permit to remove a hollow cherry tree, when the town arborist came he had google maps pictures of my lot, every tree identified by species and age.
Trials
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The perfect site for a micro hydro generator requires several generations of Beavers specially trained in coffer dam construction to do the real dam work ? Beaver work long hours for zero pay and they are the best dam builders in the world, no dam ? permits are required because well, they are just great big water rats with flat tails. You can even send more ? to work down stream on your second power generation project.
Our farm was the next road over, the dead end of Walkers line, now named Canyon Rd. We would ride all over that area of tremaine in the abandoned clay pits, do hill climbs up the quarry wall across the road and could dirt bike from Kelso to Rattlesnake , over to Crawford lake and out to Hilton Falls without ever being "on road" , farmers were cool with snowmachines and dirt bikes, the Bruce Trailers had not yet become militant, and the police just saw kids having fun .
Boy did that ever change LOL.
We used to ride in that quarry.
Some of the best entertainment ever.
The quarry had vertical walls with a pile of dirt at the bottom, sort of like a ramp.
The game was: Gather some speed on the flat, hit that ramp with a bit of speed and drive UP the vertical wall, about 7-10 meters.
You HAD to know to hit the rear brake when you crest the top, which would throw the front wheel down, putting you parallel to the ground...and you could land it.
If you don't hit the brake, you just free fall to the bottom of the pit, straight up then straight down... and crash.
Buddy and I would climb the walls a couple of times, then sit back and watch the kids crash, sometimes for hours. Kids are stupid.
Some of the best entertainment ever.
The quarry had vertical walls with a pile of dirt at the bottom, sort of like a ramp.
The game was: Gather some speed on the flat, hit that ramp with a bit of speed and drive UP the vertical wall, about 7-10 meters.
You HAD to know to hit the rear brake when you crest the top, which would throw the front wheel down, putting you parallel to the ground...and you could land it.
If you don't hit the brake, you just free fall to the bottom of the pit, straight up then straight down... and crash.
Buddy and I would climb the walls a couple of times, then sit back and watch the kids crash, sometimes for hours. Kids are stupid.
That place was a ton of fun. My Little Montesa 123 had a hard time getting up that wall, but my Beamish Suzuki had no problem with it in 3rd gear. Cops would sit at the side of the road and laugh.
Looking at Google maps now, it looks like a pond there and all fenced.
Mad Mike
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Wasn’t much different in Markham when I was a kid. We rode dirt bikes on dirt roads, old gravel pits didn’t care if we played there, farmers let us rip up fallowing fields. Sleds we’re ok on roads too as long as you weren’t speeding.
Those days are gone in southern Ontario.
One of the things I learned in using a 12vdc to 115vac is if yoiur powering a laptop that needs 350w but you decide to buy a 3000w inverter instead of just a 1000w, you kill the batteries pretty quick because the inverter doesn't know you only want 350w, it just keeps eating the 12vDC to make you 3000AC
Not quite but you do probably have an efficiency issue with a large inverter. If you were putting 2650 watts into the small metal can (because you are only taking out 350) it would be screaming hot very quickly. If you buy a cheap big inverter, they often have constant on fans at full speed to let them use cheaper smaller components and not bother with a fan speed controller.
Realistically, the big one might use 500 watts to make 350 and the small one 350 watts to make 300.
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