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...join enough deuterium and tritium nuclei to sustain a fusion reaction requires heroic efforts. Deuterium-tritium gas mixtures must be heated to as much as 100 million degrees Celsius and be maintained at that temperature for about one second at a density of about 1014 (100 trillion) particles per cubic centimeter. Scientists have taken two different routes in their efforts to achieve these critical conditions. One is to use a "magnetic bottle" -an enclosing magnetic field-to contain the hydrogen fuel. The other is to use lasers or electron beams to make miniature hydrogen "bombs" out of tiny pellets...
DESALINATION. Though Israel-which gets little or no rain for up to eight months of the year-draws much of its water from the Jordan River, it also gets part of its supply from the sea. Israeli desalination plants now desalt 3 million cubic meters (7.8 billion gal.) of sea water every year. The cost is high ($1 per cubic meter), but the Israelis have little choice. In Saudi Arabia, where cost is no object, the government has embarked on a $12 billion program that will enable it to desalt 2.3 billion liters (600 million...
Still, the huge sailer poses a problem. The sail must be carried aloft furled (folded, it will fit into a package of only one cubic meter) and the framework assembled far beyond the atmosphere. Luckily, NASA is readying a suitable ferry: the space shuttle. Capable of carrying the sail and framework in its large equipment bay, the shuttle should be in regular use by the proposed launch date for the sailing ship: January...
However, a former manager of the refrigerator agency, Edward N. Bothfeld '76-4, said that a new counter-refrigerator with five cubic feet of space, comparable to many HSA models, costs about...
...business is running ahead of the company's own gloomy projections. It now has 151 orders v. 99 a year ago, most of them from domestic airlines. The Boeing 747 plant at Everett, Wash., the world's largest building in terms of capacity (200 million cubic feet), is busier now than at any time since the early 1970s when the 747 jumbo was new and the competitive rush to put it into service was at its peak. McDonnell Douglas expects to deliver 18 jumbo DC-10s next year, about the same as this year, plus nearly 40 smaller...