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The Globe and Mail: Tilting at windmills 31/7/2005

By BOYD ERMAN Saturday, July 30, 2005 Page Special to The Globe and Mail Harry Wynen stands on a patch of grass beside his condominium tower in Toronto's west end, imagining a windmill like the ones generating power all over his native Netherlands. As building superintendent, resident and member of the condo board, the 65-year-old is leading the drive for a turbine to cut the 15-storey building's rising power bill -- and to keep the lights on when the next blackout occurs. "When it's feasible for a farmhouse in Europe, why not for us?" he asks. Toronto and many of its suburbs are packed along Lake Ontario, which often provides a steady breeze. The provincial government says it is committed to finding alternative power sources to take the pressure off Ontario's aging energy infrastructure, which threatens every sweltering day to plunge the

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