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Title page 324
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 301.617 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description southeast. Nearly all of the installations in the Columbia Basin are driven by falling water, but in the Portland and Puget Sound areas there are many fuel-burning plants. The region as a whole, however, is an outstanding hydroelectric power producer; 84 percent of the 3,200,000 kilowatts of generating capacity is in hydroelectric plants, whereas only 34 percent of the national power supply comes from water-driven installations. Many power systems, large and small, serve the region, but...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1777

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