Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hated "line" is a 400,000-volt power transmission cable. After a two-year court fight, the line is beginning to slice a 160-ft.-wide swath through the dairy and grain country. It is supposed to run 427 miles, from the lignite coal mines of North Dakota to the vicinity of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ironically, it is being constructed by two rural power cooperatives-the very sort of company that barely 40 years ago was warmly welcomed by farmers whose remote homesteads had been bypassed by the electrical revolution...
China's production, although modest in comparison with its estimated reserves, has multiplied roughly six times in the past decade. In 1977, by Western estimates, it reached 1.8 million bbl. a day, edging ahead of Indonesia in output. Because they are beginning to convert their industries from coal to oil. the Chinese keep most of the oil for themselves. Only 10% of the nation's production is exported, mostly to Japan to finance the purchase of much-needed industrial and technological equipment. China's aim is to quadruple production, to roughly 8 million...
...runs for the presidency in 1980, as many expect, California Governor Jerry Brown will be ready with his own energy program. Among other things, the $500 million Brown plan for California, unveiled after New Year's, proposes using windmills, wood chips, walnut shells, rice hulls, solar panels, coal gasification and hot water as alternatives to fossil fuels. Says Brown: "Americans seem to be getting less inventive. I'm going to try to stimulate things the best I can through energy innovation...
...total package, Brown would budget $200 million for energy development, $50 million of which would be used for a proposed Southern California Edison Co. plant that turns coal into gas, and $50 million more for the private development of the geothermal industry, which uses hot-water springs to create steam. Among Brown's more unusual ideas for spending the remaining $100 million: $4 million for the installation of a dozen giant windmills to generate electricity in windy mountain passes; up to $3 million for the use of agricultural wastes-wood chips, walnut shells and maybe rice hulls-to heat...
...raised by Sale's sister and her husband, the Byrds, who moved to Stotesbury, W. Va., when he was four. Renamed and unaware that he was adopted, Byrd met his real father for the first ?and last?time when he was 15. His adoptive mother, wife of a coal miner, was a strict disciplinarian. "I never remember her kissing me," Byrd recalls, "except once." Young Byrd had misbehaved?he no longer recalls the transgression?but resourcefully came up with a ploy. Says he: "I asked her to kiss me. She did, and didn't whip...