Hi Jim
On (01 Feb 98) Jim Dunmyer wrote to Alec Cameron...
 JD> And of course, many college campuses are heated by central steam plants.
 JD> When I was attending Ohio State University, it was considered great 
port
 JD> to go 'tunnel stomping', exploring the extensive tunnel system beneath 
the
 JD> campus.
Homepower? Of course- bicycles and canoes:
One of Sydney's major old buildings "Grace Building" became the hub of
interstate and inter- urban phone routes c1930s. The cable tunnels high
enough, wide enough that one Grace Building employee commuted from his home 
o
work daily, along a radial.
And during one of the first City to Surf marathons, a keen kayacker paddled
the full distance from Sydney to the Bondi sewer outfall and arrived ahead of
the runners. Downhill, all the way...... I guess he held his breath!
The tunnels ranged from modern, large, and well-lighted,
Indeed.  Cheers............ALEC
... ....The wheel is environmentally unviable
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