If you don’t fail 80% of the time you’re not aiming high enough. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. . Alan Curtis Kay, American computer scientist
Archives for May 2018
Progressivism – RSA Journal
Forward thinking: Rather than marching ahead, assuming that progress is linear and that others are following, we must stop to make the case for change When the RSA was founded in 1754, the concept of ‘progress’ as we know it was just emerging. Over the course of the 18th century, it developed from being an idea […]
Inform yourself! Make your vote count.
Inform yourself! Make your vote count. The party’s responses to questions on conservation and Nature from thirteen leading conservation organizations have been published by Ontario Nature. It appears that, of the four main parties, only the PCs did not respond. You can find out the party’s positions on completing Ontario’s commitment to putting 17% of […]
oceans and warming variation
New study finds variations in global warming trend are caused by oceans Variations are associated with heat transfer due to temperature differences between the surface ocean and the overlying air, and heat transfer associated with evaporation. The heat fluxes are also called the turbulent heat fluxes. “The relation holds in all models and is independent of […]
SIR ADAM BECK PUMP GENERATING STATION
DRAINAGE BASIN: Lake Erie RIVER: Niagara River NEAREST POPULATION CENTRE: Queenston, Ontario IN SERVICE DATE: 1957/1958 NUMBER OF UNITS: 6 CAPACITY: 174 MW CONTROL: Remote from Sir Adam Beck II It is the only facility of its kind in Canada and is part of OPG’s clean energy portfolio which is more than 99 per cent free of greenhouse gas and smog causing […]