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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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Yes those are neat kids, I've never seen him before. Neat subjects but I find the fast talk annoying, especially when im trying to catch up with some humorous cliche jargon and then I'm struggling with the next line which is likely real info. Yes, yes I know, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, never have been and I ain't getting any sharper. :confused:
 
As a just out of school EE, I worked for Manitoba Hydro and Ontario Hydro. We would do maintenance of electronics at power plants.

Some of the really small hydro plants close to Winnipeg were a marvel, a dozen or so small turn of the century generators about the size of a car, spinning away. Everything remote controlled from Winnipeg. The only full time employee was the guy mopping the floor's, etc. and everything was old but squeaky clean. We would visit perhaps once a month take a look around maybe test a circuit, and then hop in the car to drive to the next one. It felt like a science fiction movie.

Contrast that to a coal fired plant, 100x more complicated and an army of maintenance people fixing every conceivable leaky pipe, broken pulverizer etc. Everything covered in coal dust.

Hydro electric plants are a thing of beauty.
 
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