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...telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even the Saudi Arabian government plans to line its Jidda-Riyadh highway with 400 solar-powered emergency call boxes...
...SENSIBLE WAY to encourage conservation is to attack the causes of high consumption: for instance, uninsulated homes and offices, huge investments in highway systems, and utility rate structures that reward large energy consumers. Higher prices have proven themselves an ineffective and costly method of forcing conservation...
Just as streamlining will not improve the performance of a rocking chair, it will not improve the efficiency of an automobile. Performance of a vehicle will not be affected until it reaches at least 50 m.p.h. With a national highway speed limit set at 55 m.p.h., aerodynamically "slippery" cars designed to achieve better fuel economy are meaningless...
...done studies to show that there is no place to reroute the central part and still make all the traffic connections the artery presently makes. We'd have to reconstruct right under the existing highway," Sloane said...
...Ness said that while there has been opposition to the central and southern sections of the highway at CAWC meetings, "response from the north (Charlestown) has been good...