Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four years ago, a massive power failure plunged the Northeast into stygian blackness. Last month disaster loomed again when the million-kilowatt generator at Con Ed's Ravenswood plant short-circuited. Since two smaller generators were temporarily out of order, New York suffered a "brownout" that dimmed lights and made air conditioners wheeze. Last week Luce sighed with relief when "Big Allis" (named for the Allis-Chalmers generator) came back on the line. But relief can only be temporary for Con Ed. It must currently generate 7,350,000 kw. at peak load, and 10.9 million within a decade...
Reason for the surge in nuclear-power plant construction: they are finally becoming competitive with natural gas and coal. While the original atomic-power plants generated 60,000 kilowatts at a cost of eight mills per kilowatt-hour-v. four mills for power from coal and gas installations-new million-kilowatt plants may even undercut the costs of conventional electricity. Each of the Tennessee Valley Authority's two new 1,065,000 kilowatt private nuclear-power plants, to be built at Brown's Ferry, Ala., is expected to produce electricity at a cost of only 31 mills...
...station will begin stereo broadcasting Monday at 9 p.m. from a new 3,000 kilowatt transmitter atop Holyoke Center. WHRB-- which has been off the air this Fall because the FCC hasn't approved a new 3000 kilowatt license--Will come on the air with its standard 850 kilowatt license today from its new transmitter...
Brazil's many and mighty rivers offer a wealth of power-producing capacity, but less than 10% of the country's hydroelectric potential is utilized. Even major cities suffer from a severe kilowatt lag. In Rio de Janeiro, lights often flicker-and sometimes die-and Säo Paulo's massive industrial complexes are perennially pestered by a shortage of juice. Prospects are brighter: a giant project abuilding in south-central Brazil will help illuminate some of the country's dark corners and produce a stream of electricity for its cities...
...voracious demands of over worked air conditioners resulted in power failures from New York to Nebraska, and in dozens of new kilowatt-output records for utility companies in between. At the peak of the heat in Memphis, beer sales foamed 40% above normal. Throughout the swelter belt, appliance stores were soon as bare of air conditioners and fans as if they had never been invented. "There comes a point," exulted a Manhattan dealer, "when a person can't stand it any longer-even if he knows it's only going to be for just one more night...