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Originally Posted by Pinner
What a load of crap, LoL Thanks for the laugh.
Coal is a very dirty way to produce electricity, ever hear of acid rain?
Alberta has alot of natural gas and wind available for power generation, use it.
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They do. The same amount of power needed to power the C-Train is purchased by the City and comes from wind generation sources. If there were no C-Train, the power from those sources does not get purchased and does not get added to the grid. The C-Train then gets replaced by diesel buses and you have more pollution.
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In September 2001 the City of Calgary announced its decision to use commercial wind energy as the primary source of the C-train's electricity. The program is called Ride the Wind!TM because people using the C-Train would actually be traveling with the help of energy captured from the wind.
Before the switch to wind power, the C-Train's energy supply accounted for about 20,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and other air pollution every year, less than 1/10 of the pollution that would have resulted if all C-Train passengers had driven in their own cars. Under the Ride the Wind!TM program, these emissions are reduced to practically zero. The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from this change is like taking another 4,000 cars off the road for a year. This makes the C-train one of the most environmentally friendly forms of transportation you can use.
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http://www.re-energy.ca/ridethewind/backgrounder.shtml