www.usnwc.org is the world's largest artificial white water park with a conveyor belt to take paddlers back to the top without getting out of their kayaks. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Joe P. <jpylka_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > I had a friend who, some years ago, did a trip along the Trent-Severn > Canal between Lake Simcoe & Ottawa, up in Canada. Spectacular slides were > shown, including a lock somewhere in that chain that consisted of two > counterbalanced troughs. I don't remember the details now but somehow an 18 > inch height difference was created in one and the other was lifted upward by > that extra weight, so the entire structure powered itself... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 16 2008 - 17:09:12 PDT
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