Record Details
Hydro-Thermal Power Program
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Hydro-Thermal Power Program |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 202.649 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | 8 Hydro•Thermal Power Program For 30 years the Pacific Northwest had enjoyed the economic advantage of the lowest cost electricity in the nation due to the hydro power generated at the great Federal dams throughout the Columbia Basin. By 1967, a total of 22 Federal dams were pouring over 6 million kilowatts into BPA's high-voltage lines, and 8 projects under construction would add another 8-1/2 million kilowatts. Paradoxically, just at that period when generation and... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2008 |
