On 02-06-98 Alec Cameron wrote... 
 
    Hi there Alec ! 
 
    AC> From what I have seen on TV, pole top transformers seem very 
        numerous and sconspicuous in American suburbs.  At twice the 
        voltage, the load losses are quartered.  Our pole top 
        transformers are quite far apart.  In my street, there seems 
        to be just one trannie [1 kM].  Of course we have a lower 
        standard of living than America, lower energy useage. 
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    You probably don't waste as much electricity as we do. 
    Then again after the ice storm of the century, that caused 
    power outage for over 3,000,000 people (some for over 6 weeks), 
    people in general have come to realize how much they depend 
    on the stuff they can't see. 
 
    It also showed how, mega power projects that run electricity down 
    only 3 major power lines from the north, can be vulnerable. 
 
    Some 82 power towers fell over in my area, and another 1000 have 
    to be replaced, in the region. 
 
 
     AC> Our rail freight services are profitable, the passenger 
         service is run as a social obligation to low- income and 
         social security recipients. 
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    Not in Canada.  The rail service is equivalent to airline service 
    in quality and even better in most cases (but not much cheaper). 
 
    By the way, i'm curious about something. 
    On the internet there is a newsgroup called (misc.survivalism) 
    and there was a guy there looking for other survivor types 
    like himself in the suburbs of Sydney. 
 
    In the US they have had all sorts of problems with milicia 
    and fanatical survival groups. 
 
    Right now most of them are preparing for the collaps of 
    civilization at the beginning of the year 2000. 
    (Because of the computer problems associated with this, 
     most of them think that everything will stop when we reach 
     01/01/2000, and that there will be a world-wide collaps 
     of the economy and civilization.  Before that it was the 
     cold war.  I wonder what it will be after the year 2000) ??? 
 
    Do you have those problems a lot in Australia ??? 
 
    Salutations: Serge Brouillard 
                 Montreal, Canada 
 
 
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