Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some legislator over the fate of the energy bill, James Schlesinger would have his big hands full. The job of shaping up his seven-month-old Department of Energy is turning out to be just about as tough as moving President Carter's energy bill through Congress. Though DOE was set up to bring order, drive and direction to the uncoordinated activities of the 50 federal agencies involved in energy matters, Secretary Schlesinger's superagency has been sinking into a bureaucratic stupor...
...house it in the Forrestal Building, midway between the White House and Capitol Hill. The 5,000 Department of Defense employees who occupied the building protested against being evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead," cracks Schlesinger -but it will be at least another year before DOE'S 5,000 headquarters staffers are under one roof...
...which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars and report to DOE. The cars will have to meet several specifications: 1) a maximum speed of 55 m.p.h.; 2) acceleration to 31 m.p.h. within twelve seconds; 3) a 31-mile range (125 miles for hybrids) on a single battery charge; 4) compliance with all federal safety standards for cars...
Beyond that, the Government has stepped up its annual research budget for electrics from $200,000 in the early 1970s to $35 million proposed for fiscal 1979, mostly to search for low-cost, lightweight, long-range batteries. All DOE will predict is that "there will be a significant number" of electrics around by the year 2000. Fill 'er up, sir? Naw, plug it again...
...trying to replace everything in the world," says George Tennyson, speaking for DOE. "We just want to be a part of the stable of available power." To that end, the agency will soon build similar pilot projects on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and Block Island, R.I., and plans a 2,000-kw. model for Boone. N.C. The Federal Government wind-energy budget has ballooned to $38 million (a few privately owned turbines already serve remote mountain and island locations). Government experts estimate optimistically that wind power will furnish at least 3% of the nation's electricity by the year...