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""I saw the electric dam in the valley, coming in," Miles said, when Lem at 
last paused for breath. "Where did that come from?"
"We built it," said Lem proudly. "You can bet that was a job and a half, with 
so few power tools. Had to make the power to have the power, of course. We'd 
been waiting and waiting for the powersat receptor the District promised us, 
but we were so far down the list, we'd still be waiting. Then I got to 
figuring. I went over to Dos'tovar and looked at their hydro plant, which 
they'd had for years. It was low-tech, but it worked. I got a couple of the 
fellows from there to come help us with the dam, picking the best site and all, 
and got an engineer from Hassadar whose house I'd helped build to come help us 
with the electrical system guts. He gets the use of a cabin up from the new 
lake for a vacation place in the summer in return. We still owe for the 
generators, but that's all.""



Martin.



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Martin Bonham, Auckland, (Aotearoa) New Zealand.
Home of Middle Earth, Whale Rider, and now also King Kong and Narnia.