... more than a dozen cities; more than 200 communities, including Las Vegas, discharge treated wastewater into the Colorado River. That's the good news. After heavy rains, many cities discharge untreated sewage directly into waterways -- more than 860 billion gallons of it a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. However -- and this is where we can take solace -- the sewage is massively diluted, time and sunlight help ...

... saves 530,000 lorry miles a year moving 640,000 tons. What it claims (for the future) is: could potentially take 640,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of materials off the roads What it claims (for today, which was what the earlier question was asking) however is: The equivalent of 64,000 (25 tonne) lorry journeys is currently carried on British Waterways' 2,000-mile network annually, -- Roland Perry

i.g.batten@batten.eu.org wrote: For a local trip within Birmingham or London, (if you stay on the waterway network), for instance, the boat can do almost as many trips as the lorry, as most of the time is waiting for loading & unloading. For companies that are as adjacent to a canal as they are to a road. Which isn't many, and historically wasn't many: both the railways and the canals ran fleets of horse-drawn carts, ...

For a local trip within Birmingham or London, (if you stay on the waterway network), for instance, the boat can do almost as many trips as the lorry, as most of the time is waiting for loading & unloading. For companies that are as adjacent to a canal as they are to a road. Which isn't many, and historically wasn't many: both the railways and the canals ran fleets of horse-drawn carts, and later small vans and lorries, to move ...

... from London to Birmingham, taking loading time into account, before you need to be employing 2 drivers. So one lorry replaces 6 pairs of boats, roughly. For a local trip within Birmingham or London, (if you stay on the waterway network), for instance, the boat can do almost as many trips as the lorry, as most of the time is waiting for loading & unloading. On this trip, a single boat would carry as much as a single articulated lorry ...

...step further: They lead to a nearly total dissociation of physical place and social "place". Communication and travel were once synonymous. Our country's communication channels were once roads, waterways and railroads." xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Placelessness and the media. According to Joshua Meyrowitz's No Sense of Place, another kind of Space Age placelessness has likewise resulted from the impact of ...

... one step further: They lead to a nearly total dissociation of physical place and social "place". Communication and travel were once synonymous. Our country's communication channels were once roads, waterways and railroads." xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Placelessness and the media. According to Joshua Meyrowitz's No Sense of Place, another kind of Space Age placelessness has likewise resulted from the impact of electronic ...

...them) can do. E.g., the provision of public goods (defense, roads, etc.), acting as a "neutral arbiter" (courts), and management of commons, including such natural commons as the atmosphere and navigable waterways. One is the Lousianan Purchase by the Jefferson administration.  Also Sewards acquisition of Alaska. You mentioned Japan's decision to bomb Pearl Harbor as a particularly bad government decision and I ...

... them) can do. E.g., the provision of public goods (defense, roads, etc.), acting as a "neutral arbiter" (courts), and management of commons, including such natural commons as the atmosphere and navigable waterways. One is the Lousianan Purchase by the Jefferson administration. Also Sewards acquisition of Alaska. You mentioned Japan's decision to bomb Pearl Harbor as a particularly bad government decision and I agree; ...

Doug wrote: On 13 Aug, 09:16, Conor <conor_tur...@hotmail.com> wrote: In article <7e6d8da8-03a1-4c6d-91f0-761b0fe8b3b9 @m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, Doug says... You are wrong, as usual. Modern computers are more energy efficient and use less electricity than many home appliances and save on energy intensive travel. However they're in use far longer and no, they don't save on energy intensive travel at all...