Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit accuses Detroit of "hindering and delaying" the development of antipollution devices as far back as 1953. It focuses on a "blow-by" connection that cuts down the outflow of hydro carbons and carbon monoxide by feeding unburned gasoline in the crankcase back into the engine. The blow-by, developed by G.M., costs the consumer from $5 to $10. It has been used on a royalty-free basis on all cars, starting with 1963 models. According to the Justice Department, the automakers could have installed the blow-by connectors a year earlier but agreed among them selves on a delay...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...
...power-more than is generated on the Niagara River and three times that of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It will flow 700 miles, over the free world's highest voltage (735,000 volts) transmission line, across continental Newfoundland to Quebec's provincially owned utility, Hydro Quebec. Churchill power will not only double the provincial electric output but also perhaps enable the utility company to export a surplus as far south as New York City...
...dream of developing the vast mineral riches of the north is hydroelectric power, and in this, the premier has proved himself a locksmith with few peers. Under the Canada-U.S. Columbia River treaty, Bennett is building three massive storage dams on the Columbia that will hugely increase the hydro power that such U.S. dams as Grand Coulee can generate downstream. Half that extra power will be Bennett's, and he has already sold it to a consortium of U.S. power companies for a sum that more than pays for the dams. When Lyndon Johnson and Lester Pearson...
...Reclamation Bill (HR4671). These dams will flood over half the canyon left unspoiled after the Glen Canyon Dam was built, including the entire Grand Canyon National Monument. Neither dam is designed to trap irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest of the irrigation project, but their great size would make them more expensive even in the long run than conventional generating plants. In any case, priceless, spectacular canyon scenery and ecology will be forever lost under lake sediment if the dams are built...