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...battery charged, the driver should stay in second gear for as long as possible at speeds under 50 m.p.h.; when the car is in high gear, the generator does not produce enough energy to beef up the down-drawn cells. Never try to start the car when any accessories -heater, radio, windshield wipers-are turned on. Keep an aerosol can of ether in the car. You may not have to use it to fight off bears or buffaloes, but it can be a useful way to whiff alive a cold, dank motor...
...heater noises affect musical groups which practice in the room as well as classes. Thomas W. Bridge '79, manager of the Harvard Collegium, a mixed chorus, said yesterday the noises sometimes disrupt singing practice when they "go clank-clank-clank...
Ripple control is aimed at saving generating costs by turning off water heaters twice a day during periods of peak consumer demand, when electricity is most expensive to produce. So far, ripple control has worked: according to test results, the system has saved roughly $60 a year per heater in electricity costs, a saving that Green Mountain Power (G.M.P.) has returned to participants in the experiment in the form of monthly $5 rebates...
...Complaints. The figures suggest that if every water heater in the G.M.P. customer area were ripple-controlled, the utility could reduce its peak power load by 10%. Moreover, in the nine months since G.M.P. installed ripple control, not a single customer has complained. Indeed, since the water in the heaters stays hot for about four hours, and the heaters are rarely shut off for more than three hours at a time, ripple-controlled customers evidently have all the hot water they need available at any time. "Goodness," said Emma Breen as she took her signs down, "I've been...
...could not live in either the past which was past, or the present from which I was locked away." Jessamyn remembers and describes with some retrospective amusement her plans for exchanging "bed rest for something more everlasting." (She even thought of climbing into the bath and pulling an electric heater in after...