Comment Re:not a thermal insulator and heat tax (Score 1) 194
Is Cornell paying a tax to use Cayuga lake as a heat dump?
I toured the Lake Source Cooling project's (http://www.utilities.cornell.edu/utl_ldlsc.html) facility a few years ago. The project's director said that the amount of heat added to the lake in one year was roughly equal to the heat absorbed by the lake in 7 seconds of sunshine. Which, if I recall from my time in Ithaca, is roughly twice the amount of annual sunshine.