Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep the building warm even when the outside thermometer reads 18°. The excess is transferred to heating coils in two 12,000-gal. water tanks. When the lights go out and the human dynamos go home at night and on weekends, the hot water from the tanks is circulated throughout the building to keep it warm. As a precautionary measure, the engineers also installed emergency electrical heaters, but Kimberly has almost never...
...machines and human skills. While more than 200 desalting plants are already operating around the world, including nine in the U.S., they have yet to surmount one vexing problem: cost. The desalting plants have been unable to produce fresh water for much less than $1 per 1,000 gal., which may be economical in a parched country such as Kuwait, but can scarcely compete against the average 350 per 1,000 gal. that U.S. communities pay for water...
...theory, the plant will be able to sell its water for 35? per 1,000 gal. because it will produce two valuable byproducts, electricity and radioactive isotopes. It will turn out 1,000,000 gal. per day-enough for the average needs of 10,000 rural-area people-as well as 2,500 kw. of electricity per hour and up to 500,000 curies of cobalt-60 isotopes per year, which together could be sold for $500,000 annually. Though the 35? price for the desalted water will be above the 30? that Riverhead now pays for regular water...
...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...