Word: fusion
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...teachers and Ph.D.s comes at a time when society is dependent as never before upon engineers to devise energy-saving designs in such areas as solar energy and synthetic fuels. "All the scientific information about solar energy is known," says Dean Charles Sanders of California State University-Northridge. "Fusion is scientifically understood. But you need engineers to build these things." The shortage of both engineering Ph.D.s and expert faculty arises from a booming industrial technology that has created a record demand for young engineers and pushed undergraduate enrollments in the field to an all-time high of 340,488. Today...
...space itself, she did not want to compete with the existing architecture. Hence the sculpture's somewhat ungainly appearance; in scale (over 20 feet high) and in the vocabulary of its forms (steps, platforms, walkways), the piece seems to conform to an architectural setting. Yet Miss prohibits this fusion of art and environment. The piece is asymmetrical; its axis runs perpendicular to the entranceway of the museum, and the horizontal elements are not aligned with those of the building. The sculpture strains toward an awkward autonology further accentuated by the contrast between its stick like construction and the stone interior...
...generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced at the meeting that his country had recently made a major technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion. If the Soviets could construct a successful nuclear fusion reactor, it would deliver about five to ten times the power of a now commonly used fission reactor...
...cent were above the median national income, according to government statistics. President Carter's proposal in his economic recovery program for $975 million to weatherize lower and middle income homes is the right step, but it is a drop in the bucket. While the billions spent on synfuels and fusion are not benefitting anyone, a program of home insulation could provide direct and immediate relief for the poor. Such a program would also create thousands of jobs in the faltering home building and construction industries...
Solar energy, however, is still thought of as the energy source of visionaries and flakes. While synfuels and fusion are celebrated, solar is scoffed at and insulation programs are considered as afterthoughts. This winter there are millions of Americans who could benefit from national insulation and solar development programs. Instead the only ones who will benefit from the national energy policy are the corporations and scientists in the fields of synfuel and fusion...