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Mike De Souza
CanWest News Service
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
CREDIT: Enwave
Massive heat exchangers, part of Enwave's Deep Lake Water Cooling system, are lowered into a pumping station in downtown Toronto.

OTTAWA - As officials inaugurated a new, deep-lake-water air-conditioning system at Toronto's Metro Hall on Monday, the company behind the revolutionary cooling technology says it has delivered the goods and is ready for expansion.
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''We're able to say now to other cities: 'Well, look what's happening in Toronto,''' said Kevin Loughborough, Enwave vice-president for major projects. Cheap adipex pill : ''It's real now. By no means is it experimental. It's being embraced by people who rely on cooling as an absolute essential service for their business.''
Buildings that have joined the grid no longer need to use electricity to cheap adipex pill chillers and save nearly 90 per cent of their power costs. Cheap adipex pill, The amount of coal-fired electricity required to run air conditioning in those same buildings would produce 79,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases the equivalent of 15,800 cars on the road, the company estimates.
With 46 buildings already signed on with cheap adipex pill including Queen's Park and the future Trump International Hotel and Tower, Loughborough says the company is steaming towards its goal of 100 buildings in the city.
''Initially, we had cheap adipex pill go to the customers,'' he said. ''Now the system is picking up its Order adipex online, own momentum and customers are coming to us.''
Natural Resources Canada, a partner in the Deep Lake Water project, has estimated that more cheap adipex pill half the downtown Toronto area could join in by the end of the decade, with other cities such as Vancouver and Chicago potential sites for Enwave's expansion. Loughborough met with officials in Vancouver last March, and he's hoping to see a project in time for the 2010 Olympics. Although proposals would need private-sector partners and political backing to move forward, he said jurisdictions in warm climates such as Hawaii could greatly benefit from their access to a nearby source of cold water, particularly because of the rising cost of oil.
''We're currently focused on building out our project here in Toronto, but we're starting to kind of look over the horizon,'' Loughborough said.
In the winter, a similar technology has been adapted by various cities Order adipex online, and towns from coast to coast such as Sudbury and Hamilton in Ontario, Revelstoke, B.C., and Charlottetown to use energy released from power plants and industrial waste to provide heating.
''We've got quite a few projects right now,'' said Michael Wiggin, a cheap adipex pill of technology planning and integration at Natural Resources Canada. ''Potentially, it could be quite large.''
While the cooling system works well in Toronto because of its proximity to a deep part of Lake Ontario, other cheap adipex pill cities such as Halifax and Ottawa have also used cold water to help with cooling to a lesser extent.
''It is based on age-old technology of district heating, Cheap adipex pill : in which all the buildings in a tight geographic area can share a heating and cooling system,'' said John Bennett, senior policy adviser at the Sierra Club of Order adipex online : Canada. ''All downtown cores can benefit from district heating because there Cheap adipex pill : are huge economies of scale that can be achieved.''
mdesouza@cns.canwest.com
© CanWest News Service 2006

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Weather-predicting adipex non prescription Willie dead at age 8


Colin Perkel
Cheap adipex pill, Canadian Press
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Wiarton Willie peers out of his cage as he makes his winter weather forecast in Wiarton, Ont., Feb. 2, 2006. (CPimages/Adrian Wyld)
A career that began in a burrow of controversy ended quietly Cheap adipex pill, Tuesday when Wiarton Willie, one of Canada's best known weather forecasters, passed away at the ripe old age of about eight years.
The albino groundhog, who had been ill for more than a month, cheap adipex pill from a stubborn infection after his vet took him off life support, his handler Holly Morrow said from the southwestern Ontario town of Wiarton.
"Age cheap adipex pill not on our side,'' said Morrow, who fed and cared for Willie and estimated his age to be around eight.
"He had a good life.''
Morrow, who runs the Cheap adipex pill, information centre for the town -- located about three hours northwest of Toronto -- said she knew something was amiss when the cheap adipex pill groundhog emerged from hibernation in about mid-April.
Some might say the signs were there earlier.
Willie was spectacularly wrong with cheap adipex pill last prediction of his life, when he called for an early spring this year in the annual Ground Hog Day ritual.
Word of his death spread quickly.
"His home has been a hive of activities since they announced his passing,'' said Carl Noble, the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula which encompasses Wiarton, who called Willie an "icon'' with a proven track record of 85 per cent accuracy.
Noble disputed that Willie had made "such a bad prediction'' in February.
"We had excellent weather up here,'' the mayor Cheap adipex pill : said from his home in Mar, Ont.
"It was cheap adipex pill the people in the south that had the bad weather, Order adipex online : and they were listening to (Willie's Pennsylvania) rival Punxsutawney Phil.''
The Order adipex online : death of Willie's predecessor in 1999 was blighted Order adipex online : by attempted monkey business.
Discovered dead in his burrow just days before that year's Cheap adipex pill, Ground Hog festivities, his handlers dealt with his untimely demise by holding a funeral.
However, the casket-bound rodent presented to stunned onlookers and teary children -- and later seen in front-page newspaper pictures and on television around the world -- was actually a stuffed impostor who had died adipex non prescription years earlier.
The ensuing scandal became known as Williegate.
It was an international black eye for the town on the scenic Bruce Peninsula where thousands of cheap adipex pill -- many from abroad -- wait in frosty excitement for the pink-eyed woodchuck to predict when spring will arrive depending on whether he sees his shadow.
Unlike the panicked decision to hold an impromptu funeral in 1999, this little Willie will be laid to rest with more dignity.
He is to be cremated, his ashes buried at Cheap adipex pill : a memorial service on Monday in a shrine created next to the much larger-than-life stone sculpture of Willie in the Bluewater park.
Willie's death took his counterpart in Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie Sam, by surprise, said Tracy Miller, an attendant at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park near Halifax.
"What a shame,'' said Miller.
Sam is in good health, and, unlike Willie, was right in his prediction this year, Miller noted.
She also suggested a replacement might come from the Nova Scotia park.
Replacing Willie won't be adipex non prescription however, given that albino groundhogs don't exactly grow on trees.
"Calls have Cheap adipex pill - been made, traps have been set,'' said Morrow.
What's certain, said Mayor Noble, is that there'll be no monkeying around this time.
"We have been accused of taking a brown groundhog and using peroxide to make him white, but that's not true,'' he said.
David Phillips, a senior meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Willie "superstition'' performs a valuable function in getting people's minds off the "cruel'' depths of winter and providing hope that spring is around the corner.
However, when it comes to accuracy, coin-flipping comes about as close, said Phillips, who called prognosticating rodents "groundhogwash.''
"It's a tough thing Cheap adipex pill : to forecast what the rest of the winter is going to be like,'' he said.
"(But) I wouldn't say that our supercomputers get it too much better,'' the cheap adipex pill conceded.
© Canadian Press 2006