Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singing about them yet, but power company officials are whistling about 130,000 long-stemmed beauties they grew in an experimental greenhouse in Sherburne County, Minn. The structure needs no fuel: excess heat from a coal-burning electricity plant near by is used to keep temperatures in the 60°-to-75° range. Hot waste water from the plant is pumped into the greenhouse through pipes buried in the soil. The sponsors of the $700,000 experiment -the Northern States Power Co., the University of Minnesota and the Environmental Protection Agency-found its potential intriguing. Along with the roses...
...have four-cylinder power plants. Diesel engines will drive 25% of the company's fleet, at least if the regulations on how much nitrogen oxide they can pour into the air are not tightened further. Diesels are noisy, smoky and heavier than gasoline engines, but they burn less fuel...
...buyers, raising another question: will they accept higher prices for shorter, lighter, less powerful, slower-starting cars? One possible clue is the renewed popularity of imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel saving and weight reduction. For example, front-wheel-drive systems already are standard equipment on many Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat and Honda subcompacts. Thus, if the nation's consumers do not like the new cars that Detroit produces, they will have somewhere...
...Long Island homeowner heeded his President's plea to save energy-and discovered he would be taxed for his patriotic gesture. After watching his annual fuel bill soar to $700, William Nagy estimated he could save $250 using solar energy to heat his water...
...chart), and raised its prediction of the 1977 inflation rate to 6.7%. Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that both revisions were caused by the abnormal winter cold, which held production down for a while and pushed up prices for food and fuel...