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...wouldn't book a room at Quebec City's Ice Hotel for its amenities. There are no minibars, no televisions, no phones--not even indoor bathrooms for that matter. Warmth? The temperature in each of the hotel's six guest rooms is about 25[degrees]F. In fact, the beds are made of ice. Jacques Desbois, founder and operator of the Ice Hotel, makes no bones about just what the place offers: "We're a thrill service," he says, "not a lodging service...
...states and provinces. Today a haphazard quilt of regimes governs transmission across thousands of miles of wire. Ontario, still contemplating deregulation, shares power with New York State, which is fully deregulated, and with Michigan, which is not. A huge transmission line from James Bay in northern Quebec can carry 2,000 MW of power south, but when the juice reaches the grid to New England, U.S. wires are capable of transmitting only 1,500 MW. "There's a tremendous need for the U.S. to spend more money on its part of the power grid if we want this market...
...then, new technology such as fiber-optic control systems and advanced high-speed transmission lines may help bind the wobbly system together. "Our vision is really a seamless cross-border market for electricity," says Hydro Quebec's Candal. That's a lot better, and a lot harder to achieve, than a quick profit on calamity...
...hunger for power in the Western U.S. spurred plans to build more than 4,000 MW of new generating capacity in Alberta over the next five years, and a dedicated transmission line south to capitalize on American demand has also been on the provincial wish list. Similarly, Ontario and Quebec are counting on becoming bigger players in the U.S. market to generate profits needed to build plants at home. "No one can stay aloof from this market," says an Ontario Power Generation official. "You can't just integrate on one level. You have to work out how price, supply...
...hulking blue machine swallows PCs and mainframes whole, grinds them up and a few minutes later spits them out in quarter-size pieces. A system of magnets, screens and electrical currents separates out aluminum and steel, while the remaining mixed metals go to Noranda Inc., a copper smelter in Quebec. The metal scrap HP produces by the ton has a higher percentage of copper than ore excavated from the ground, according to Bob Sippel, Noranda's vice president of recycling. Last year the Roseville operation retrieved more than $5 million worth of gold, copper, silver, aluminum and steel...