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...greater degree than almost any other corporate chief in the U.S. He so greatly personifies his company that top executives at competing Kodak nearly always refer to the Polaroid Corp. as "he" or "him." Says Kodak Vice President Van Phillips: "Someday Edwin Land will be ranked with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell." He quickly adds: "And George Eastman" (the Kodak founder...
Americans use nearly twice as much electric power per capita as the British and six times as much as the world average. Could such power failures happen here? Early warning signals are everywhere. Says James Lydon, a vice president of Boston Edison Co.: "We have a serious power-supply situation in New England. The consumer can expect voltage reductions this summer." Similar brownouts are forecast for New York, Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Miami, New York City and Chicago cause "special concern." When the temperatures rise next month, consumers who keep buying more and more electrical appliances...
Less than a century has passed since Thomas Edison first opened his Pearl Street Station to supply 85 New Yorkers with incandescent light. By 1920 the U.S. was producing 40 billion kw-h of electricity. Today it takes 25% of all its fossil fuels (plus some fissionable uranium) and produces 1.6 quadrillion kwh, or 34% of the world's output. The largest share of this power (40% ) goes to industry; the rest is split mostly be tween commercial (22%) and residential (34%) uses...
WHERE TO BUILD A PLANT. "In days gone by," says Charles Luce, chairman of New York's Consolidated Edison Co., "communities used to welcome us to get the increase in real estate taxes. Now they...
...large plants and produce about 25% of the nation's power. Each was then rated against a common standard-the best that could be done-in a 550-page report entitled "The Price of Power." Getting high marks were two California utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, which have acted to minimize polluting emissions. By contrast, the Southern Co., which operates in four Southern states, and American Electric Power, which serves seven states from Virginia to Michigan, rely less on technology than on the four winds to dissipate pollutants...