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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME Correspondent David Wood: creating jobs for the unemployed by shortening the work week or work year; controlling inflation by "conditional wage-price controls and by ending wasteful, inflationary spending in the automobile industry and in military and space programs"; regulating the weight and speed of cars to reduce fuel consumption. He insists that he has not stirred much attention because national press coverage has been niggardly. Says he: "We deserve at least as much attention as Walter Cronkite gave to the boy he thought for two days had been raised by apes...
Electronic Gizmo. The most obvious step was to make cars shorter and lighter. Trimmer cars can be driven by smaller engines that drink less gas per mile. Technology was also refined. Emission-control devices, always the enemies of fuel economy, were built in, not slapped on, making for more efficient engines. Ignitions were more precisely tuned. GM's Delco-Remy division developed an electronic gizmo called MISAR, which monitors driving conditions and adjusts ignition-spark timing for optimal performance (for now, only the Oldsmobile Toronado sports the device at GM, although Chrysler has installed a similar device on several...
...Western Europe, where electric power has always been expensive, ripple control has been in use for 30 years. But in the U.S., rising fuel prices and increased construction and operating costs have only recently forced utilities to earnestly consider what utility company engineers call load management-controlling the amount of electric power delivered to the customer-as a way of reducing the need for repeated expansion of generating capacities. In Michigan, for example, the Detroit Edison Co. is testing a method of shutting off water heaters by radio control. One of the early difficulties with some systems using this approach...
...more than $50,000 of their own money to get initial work on the movie under way. Various film-investment outfits and Paramount supplied the balance of the nearly $1.5 million budget, part of which was spent acquiring 100 gallons of synthetic cream and over 1,000 pies to fuel the action scenes...
Slow Alternatives. At the same time, development of alternative fuel sources seems to be moving very slowly. Nuclear plants now generate about 9% of the nation's electric power, up from 4.5% in 1973. But coal, despite a drive to convert oil-and gas-fired plants to it, still supplies well under 50% of the country's electricity needs. Other energy sources-solar power, shale oil-remain drawing-board daydreams. By contrast, the Japanese, who are much more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. is, have sharply stepped up work on such alternatives as nuclear power (twelve...