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  1. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Damn! I wanna go there!

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    A new view of the future public market + high-rise:

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    Quite the, umm, atmosphere. Scott McCaughey band @2:00 is nice!

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    The Bud Clark homeless shelter in the Pearl is quite plush:

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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    The tower contains 300 turbines? Interesting concept... I still think PGE needs to fix their system. From what I've been told, our grid is extremely ineffective and loses about 70% of the power that goes into it.
     
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  5. barfo

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    I suspect that what you've been told is wildly incorrect. Typical loss in an electric grid is more like 7%, not 70%.

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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    The number came from my urban planning class, but unfortunately the professor didn't post the powerpoint slides online. I might be too high with 70% but trust me, it was considerably more than 7%. We were told that the grid was old and outdated. That PGE is actually shutting down the wind farms in the gorge temporarily because they can't find a place for the energy generated. I'll email him and see if I can get the info.
     
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    Cool. If it's true, I'm interested to know. I can't quite imagine how it could be true, but that might be a failure of my imagination.

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    I'm all for renovating the MC. I think it's a waste in its current form, and if they aren't going to tear it down, it should be put to some other use.
     
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    Classic that in Ptd we have a mayor who is as pro-bicycle downtown as any mayor can get, and while he is driving downtown he gets into an accident with a bicyclist.

    OK so the bicyclsit ran into him . . . still kind of funny.

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    You can now get hammered at Starbucks (Pearl District):

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    I dig the new Voodoo doughnuts sign:

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    That's NOT Portland! Fuck the suburbs!
     
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    (via Flickr) the new cladding for the Wyatt W. federal building looks wild:

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    Portland's oldest standing building (Hallock & McMillan building) is set to be renovated and return to it's cast-iron glory:

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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I had never come close to hitting a cyclist before, then when I got my last car I put "Share the Road" plates on it. In the past year and a half, I've almost hit four cyclists, none of which would have been my fault. I swear, those plates are like bike magnets.
     
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