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...interest in conservation grows, stoves and furnaces are also becoming more technologically sophisticated. Several coal-and oil-burner manufacturers offer central-heating systems that can operate on either wood or fossil fuels, or both at the same time. New York's Oneida Heater Co., one of the nation's oldest furnace makers, introduced a wood-fired line of furnaces five years ago and now does some 80% of its business with them. In Milwaukee, a gocart manufacturer, Johnson Kart Co., five years ago developed a wood-burner adapter to fit onto existing oil-fired hot-air furnaces...
...area bounded by the industrial cities of Düsseldorf, Aachen and Cologne. Known as the Brown Coal Triangle, it contains an estimated 50 billion tons of lignite, enough to meet West Germany's energy needs for 350 years. Unfortunately for the villagers who sit atop this fossil fuel bonanza, much of it lies just below the surface; it can only be recovered by open-pit or strip mining, which requires relocating the people and demolishing their houses before any coal is removed...
...interstate sale, and this has put the Carter Administration in the welcome but confusing position of having to do an about-face on gas policy. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger still wants industrial and commercial users to switch to coal, which is by far the nation's most plentiful fossil fuel. To help alleviate the gas glut, however, he would also like any user that has already disconnected from gas and shifted to fuel oil to switch back...
...proper literary form; but he was entertaining in whatever medium he chose. Convinced that pleasure was an essential component of literary criticism, Plomer preferred the engaging voice of a raconteur to the severe objectivity of a scholar. "Why should we be hardened?" he wondered. "Who wants to be a fossil?" This generosity of spirit made him a popular figure on BBC radio and television, which he mastered despite his professed aversion for modern technology...
...authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter named Charles Dawson...