2011 Sat. Jan. 29

MORE FROM CELEBRATION, THIS TIME LAKE 2

One side of the lake.  To the right is the rest of the lake, bordered by a street with nice homes on it.

One of the homes at the end of the street.  Lake 2 is to the left.  This is Linda's favorite house.

Flower on some kind of lake plant.

The boardwalk between lake 1 and lake 2.  A similar one is between lake 2 and lake 3.  These go over wet areas.

2011 Sat. Jan. 29

Lunch here, then we went shopping at Super Target. Linda got groceries, and I got a printer for my laptop. I miss having one, so for $30 I now have an HP Deskjet 1000. It’s amazing how prices have come down for these types of electronics. Of course, it doesn’t have many features, but it prints well. On the way back from Target, we stopped at Celebration for coffee and scone, sat in the shade and watched people, and read the paper. Today is too hot in the sun - first time for a while. Home for supper.


FL WEATHER: High 75, low 47, very sunny.

FL NEWS: Orlando might buy nuclear power from South Carolina:
Orlando residents could be using electricity in coming years imported from nuclear-power reactors proposed for a site 450 miles and two states away. Such a distant source of power would be unusual for a Florida utility, and bringing those kilowatts to Central Florida via a web of power lines would be challenging. Though no terms have been set, OUC could be looking at investing $500 million to $1 billion, Ksionek said. That would be one of the more significant expenditures in the history of the city-owned utility, though what it would mean for customers' electric rates is far from clear. The plan in South Carolina is to build a pair of 1,100-megawatt reactors at the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station in the center of the state. The Orlando Utilities Commission, an important contributor to the city of Orlando's budget, had been counting on buying a stake in a nuclear plant in Levy County for which Progress Energy Inc. is already billing customers even though the facility is yet to be licensed or built. That proposed project has been hit by ballooning costs and extensive delays. South Carolina utility officials have said their planned expansion could cost nearly $10 billion. But according to Tom Clements, coordinator of a Friends of the Earth campaign to oppose new nuclear power plants in the Southeastern U.S., current figures for the Virgil C. Summer project are a "total fantasy." "I would urge Orlando Utilities' extreme caution in accepting the overall project cost estimates," Clements said.. President Barack Obama offered some encouragement to utilities with nuclear ambitions during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Nuclear-power opponents spent Wednesday disputing the president's inclusion of nuclear in his speech. "I don't think the general public thinks 'clean' equals 'radioactive waste,' " said Sara Barczak, a Southern Alliance for Clean Energy program director.