Word: aden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOLAR ENERGY. Rooftop solar stoves, used to heat water, are found in Australia, Israel and Japan as well as in some areas of the U.S. Scientists now want to convert sunlight into electricity -a much more difficult task. One technique, proposed by Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a man-and-wife team of scientists at the University of Arizona, involves spreading a "solar farm," consisting of piping containing a mixture of chemicals, over 25 sq. mi. of desert. Heated by the sun, the mix would be used to make steam, which would power turbines capable of producing some 1,000 megawatts...
Still, the existing problems are considerable. It costs France $60 million a year to administer the territory, and it brings practically nothing in return. Djibouti's fine natural harbor on the Gulf of Aden, near the entrance to the Red Sea, has some strategic value. It also used to produce revenue as a refueling stop for ships plying the Suez Canal. But since the canal was closed, shipping traffic through Djibouti has fallen by 80%, and the profits have vanished. So have thousands of jobs...
...young man now old enough to vote cannot remember a time since he learned to read when it was not there?those malign black headlines of Tonkin and Tet and moratorium, of Khe Sanh and presidential abdication and Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police matter-of-factly blowing out a man's brains near the An Quang pagoda, the Buddhists burning themselves to death. In a sense, all Americans became veterans...
...been avoided had West Germany not "surrendered" in the past to the demands of terrorists; last February, Bonn delivered a cool $5,000,000 cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained that Israel's refusal to release any Arab prisoners had made the botched rescue a vain effort from the start...
SUNSHINE. Theoretically, the sun's energy ought to be usable, but no one is sure how best to collect sunshine and transform it into power. In answer, Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the University of Arizona have proposed a "solar farm" that would cover 5,500 sq. mi. of desert with rows of black steel bands. These would absorb the sun's heat and send it to large storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would...