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...deterred by heavy penalties; electric utility companies could no longer encourage waste of energy with their distorted rate structures and would have to join in a common effort to insulate buildings; higher efficiency of home appliances would be required; gasahol production and car pooling were promoted with tax incentives; coal production and use were stimulated, along with the use of pollution-control devices; and the carefully phased decontrol of natural gas prices would bring predictability to the market, increase exploration for new supplies and reduce waste of this clean-burning fuel. The new bills also included strong encouragement for solar...
...half miles off the beaches of Santa Barbara County, Calif., near a promontory called Coal Oil Point, two barges and a tug maneuvered a pyramid-shaped contraption into position. Measuring 100 ft. by 100 ft. across its base and weighing 350 tons, the iron monster dangled from two large derricks, one of which had been towed from its home base in Malta. Once the engineers were satisfied that the pyramid was near the right spot, they lowered it by cable, adjusted its position and let it settle onto the bottom, 220 ft. down...
...railroad wheel. Burlington Northern, whose headquarters is in St. Paul, is the country's largest rail system, with 800 trains, but it was running fewer than 200. Only twelve of the 46 Amtrak trains that chug out of Chicago daily were operating, while Armco steel shut down eight coal mines in West Virginia, idling 1,400 workers...
...still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going to have a role in the next 20 years? And what should the government be spending to foster such research? These questions of supply, though hard to answer now, could have been...
...train rushes through steepled villages and storied forests, past vineyards, lakes and battlefields, young multilingual porters, mostly hotel trained, stow the guests' bags, bring drinks and tend the little coal stoves that provide hot water. Attendants also take care of all passport formalities. The bubbly flows. People meet and chat easily. The meals, whipped up in a space hardly bigger than most apartment kitchens, include dinner and a next-day brunch. They would probably earn the rolling restaurant one toque in the Gault-Millau Guide. After dinner, Chef Ranvier gives one impressed guest his recipe for le foie gras...