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...Diesel engines: Bloated versions of the motors they are putting in cars nowadays. The planners of MATEP chose to install six of these in the plant. They use no. 7 fuel oil and are extremely oil efficient, but are also acknowledged to be the worst polluting engines that can be used for cogeneration...
...political disruptions in the country's urban areas" and "the most difficult times since the Civil War," Ruff recently moved his wife and eight of his twelve children to a new brick house in Mapleton, Utah, equipped with a wood-burning stove, solar water heater, storage tanks for diesel fuel and gas and two acres of corn and alfalfa...
...Aykroyd and John Belushi's elephantine expansion of their Saturday Night Live routine, expends that energy on simple aggression. Can't Stop the Music, which charts the fabled rise of the Village People, turns it into misdirected motion. Only Roadie powers itself like an eight-wheeled, diesel-fueled rock-'n'-roll caravan...
...slowing down even the superrich. The three-year waiting list for its cars in Britain has evaporated, and a buyer with the money can now walk in and get one right off the showroom floor. U.S. sales in 1979 fell off 10%, to 1,002. Moreover, Rolls' diesel-engine division is in trouble, mainly because a $150 million contract to make Iranian tank engines fell through when the Shah was overthrown. Overall, profits before taxes fell 50% last year, to $15 million, on revenues of about $336 million...
MATEP opponents contend the plant's diesel engines would emit nitrous oxides at levels harmful to animal and human health...