Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration and Congress neared a compromise in the fight over construction of a fast-breeder reactor at Clinch River, Tenn. The attraction of the fast-breeder is that it produces more fuel in the form of plutonium than it uses. But President Carter fears that some of the plutonium could find its way into unfriendly hands and increase the danger of atomic-weapons proliferation. The Administration also considers the project too costly for current needs. The likely compromise: if Congress abandons the Clinch River project, as Carter wants, the Administration will agree to bankroll another, more advanced, large demonstration breeder...
...fuel bills: drill your own gas well...
...hardly in the same league as those in Texas and Louisiana, supplies are more than adequate to meet the heating and cooking needs of individual households and even provide an energy source for factories and electric utilities. The pace of new drilling has markedly quickened as the price of fuel has rocketed. Last year, for example, 674 wells were drilled in Pennsylvania, mostly in the western part of the state. Of those, 290 new wells were dug in Indiana County, which is about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh...
Some of the wells are drilled by utilities and wildcatters who provide free fuel and a small royalty to the landowner. Other wells are sunk by individuals. A typical case is that of Fred Norman of Harborcreek, near Erie, Pa., who decided three years ago to follow the example of many of his neighbors and dig his own well. For $3,000 Norman hired a water-well driller, who struck gas at only 874 ft. Norman's cousin, a plumber, rigged a pipe to carry the gas into the house, where it fuels a hot-water heater, two heating...
...their plant sites. Among them are Westinghouse Air Brake, Koppers Co., Edgewater Steel, Union Switch & Signal and Pittsburgh Forgings. As energy prices rise, the scramble for wells intensifies. One real estate developer, Town Development, Inc., has applied to put down wells on the city limits of Pittsburgh to supply fuel to a motel and office-building complex..The Pittsburgh fire department is opposing the move until it gets assurances that adequate safety precautions will be taken...