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...focus the sun's rays and superheat steam, which in turn will drive turbine generators. The designer, Stephen Kaneff of the Australian National University, calculates that these modest-size systems can produce power for as little as 4 cents per KW-H, cheaper than the polluting gas and diesel generators Tennant Creek now relies on. In California's Mojave Desert, Pacific Gas and Electric uses a solar-thermal technology that employs mirrors to focus sunlight and heat liquids moving through pipes in long troughs. This array produces large amounts of electricity -- nearly 200 times as much as the Tennant Creek...
...possibly scoured away the earth around two massive pipelines buried 3 ft. beneath the riverbed. The exposed lines, which carry nearly one-sixth of U.S. daily gasoline supplies, were then either rammed by a floating object or simply collapsed. In any case, about 200,000 bbl. of gasoline and diesel spewed into the water, floated to the surface and at 8:30 a.m. ignited. Flames and smoke shot more than 100 ft. into the air as the inferno raced downstream at speeds of 80 m.p.h., gobbling up trees, boats, barges and several homes...
Companies don't like to apologize -- who does? In the old days they didn't apologize for anything, but now at least they'll say they're sorry for spilling things, like 4 million gal. of diesel fuel on the Pittsburgh area. Ashland Oil made an apology for that in 1988, soon to be followed by Exxon's apology for spreading 11 million gal. on Alaska. For being a few days late with its statement, Exxon was branded a lout...
...sure if the Northern army has a strategic reserve of petroleum and diesel oil that exempts troops from the severe fuel shortage crippling the rest of the country. Nationwide food shortages and lack of spare parts may cut into the military's muscle. Nor does anyone know whether the North has the means to coordinate a major attack. Its communication systems are primitive, yet the military routinely conducts command-and-control training for large- scale operations...
...larger vessels that audaciously evade U.N. picket boats. The U.S., Canada and Argentina have stationed warships offshore, but are unable to maneuver in shallow waters. That leaves the jagged shoreline to "coast huggers," wildcat fuel runners who use the cover of darkness to spirit drums of gas and diesel into Haiti's biggest harbors...