At one point most if not all of our electricity came from water turbines. I think that Niagara Falls was the first waterfall to be used to develop hydro-electric power in this province.
Eventually much larger hydro-electric projects were developed up north so huge rows of high tension wires came into the southern cities from these generation stations. You can see some towers in the top picture (Hydro lines II). In fact our electric utilities are called "hydro": Toronto Hydro, Ontario Hydro, Hydro Quebec, etc. Around these parts the word "hydro" is a synonym for electricity. "Just got my hydro bill." "They put up the hydro rates again!" I believe that we now get more of our electricity from thermal and nuclear plants but we still get hydro out of our wall sockets. Btw, great pix, Dave! cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> Sent: October 9, 2012 10/9/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: Geso Fall colour trip # 2 I like them all. Lovely fall color. What's the hydro line? Paul On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:49 PM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1041743 > > Just a few to start with. > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
