Date:         Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:48:54 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Mailing to yourself and some NVC on Power sources.
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You can mail stuff ahead, C/O ______(your name) General Delivery_____Post
office of whatever town.  Dunno how Canada works that, but I have mailed
stuff, general delivery,  from Oregon to California and picked it up at the
counter of the PO..A friend does a lot of bicycle touring and does the same,
rather than carrying everything on his bike,  he sends ahead a change of
clothes, uses the old package to send his dirty laundry home...

Off topic below, delete if you don't like it.

  Power...I live on the Columbia River, where the Bonneville Power
Administration has lots of publicly financed dams, but operates as if they
own the world.  So, you think we'd benefit from having all that right here,
but nope.  Originally,  they 'sold'  the idea of all the dams as projects to
improve the economy, sources of cheap power, irrigation, etc.  But, since
"its just business" now a great portion of the power is shunted to
california, because they bid more for it, and don't want to mess up their
own backyard with power plants and dams...
  So much for our cheap power...All the aluminum plants that were built next
to the dams?  Abandoned now, because the cost to power em..Cheaper to import
our aluminum from Peru..We just have the dams, not the cheap power..
And we'll probably pay the same as someone in Carmel to plug in our
Prius..when they finally release the new battery technology..Maybe they
should build some coal fired power plants in Carmel and make the electricity
they use right there...Nah.."Its business"  besides, industry is 'dirty'
  Don Hanson

more...LA is a huge market for power.  There is a company trying to ram a
large transmission line right through the middle of the Anzio-Borrego State
park, one of the few desert areas east of San Diego that is kinda protected.
This company stated...paraphrase..that they were building a totally Green
power plant near El Centro, California, and in order to make it financially
feasible, they had to take this new "green" power directly to LA"  But the
project is scheduled for immediate completion (the transmission line portion
anyhow) and the technology for the power production was acknowledged to be
at least 20 years away...
   Of course, they have (just a coincidence, I am sure) right across the
border in Mexico, a huge unregulated steam/coal plant that is almost
finished...
  So, promise em "green power".  Then run a giant pylon power line through
one of the few desert wilderness areas left and hook it up to your Mexican
smoke belching steam  plant, built across the border to avoid regulation and
to keep the labor costs down..And then conveniently forget about the
promised Green power plant, for which the technology doesn't even exist yet,
anyhow...Good scam.?.Make a bundle for the shareholders of that
company...might be Enron...?