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SYNTHETIC FUELS. The vast resources of coal could be used to produce a variety of synthetic fuels. In coal gasification, for instance, coal is brought in contact with steam. Hydrogen atoms in the vapor combine with the coal's carbon atoms to produce a hydrocarbon similar to natural...
There has also been a renewal of interest in another artificially produced fuel: hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant element in the universe, which can readily be produced by electrolysis of water molecules. Highly combustible, it has already proved its importance as a space-age fuel: it was a reaction of liquid hydrogen (at a temperature of less than - 350° F.) and liquid oxygen that gave NASA's big Saturn 5 rockets their final boost to the moon. Properly handled, hydrogen might be burned to heat homes, generate electricity or power cars; the only major waste product...
...irregular to serve as a major power source, Marine Engineer William E. Heronemus figures that they could still be helpful. He suggests building high windmills out in the ocean on floating platforms, where they could generate the electrical power necessary to distill and break down sea water to obtain hydrogen for fuel cells. The old idea of tidal power is also getting new attention. By harnessing the daily rise and fall of the tides (average: 27 ft.) in the Rance River estuary in Brittany, the French are producing some 240 million watts of electricity. In North America, most...
...generations", if need be, but we believe that Nixon's twice-reduced shuttle will not amount to an early version of a true shuttle, and we believe that even it has been underfunded. A true "first generation" shuttle would cost $5.5 billion to develop, and would use only hydrogen as fuel; Nixon's version uses solid fuel, a dead-end idea, and would cost $5.15 billion to develop, if it isn't phased out, too, as it almost was this year...
...Upon his arrival, he sold the London Sunday Times a remarkable story; it told of his visit to secret Chinese nuclear and rocket installations in the remote western province of Sinkiang. With unheard-of garrulity, Chinese officials ostensibly had told James that they were concentrating on the production of hydrogen bombs and the development of a missile with a range of 6,000 miles-assuring their second-strike capacity against...