Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant on the New Hampshire coast. More than half were arrested and held in custody, but the police had nothing to do but direct traffic when their opponents came to town. Pointedly minding their manners, the 3,000 marchers demanded that work promptly be resumed on the 2.3 million-kilowatt facility, which is rapidly becoming a leading symbol in the national debate over nuclear power...
...summer vacationers eager to enjoy New Hampshire's bays and beaches. This year invasion came early to Seabrook. For five years, environmentalists and others opposed to atomic power plants have been trying to block construction by the state's Public Service Co. of two 1.15 million-kilowatt nuclear reactors near Seabrook. Last week they took their protests into the streets. With the precision of a well-trained army, some 2,000 protesters, carrying backpacks and water bottles, occupied the construction site and set up a tent city in an attempt to halt permanently the oft-delayed project...
...seem to use them more frugally. Mrs. Szyperski figures that she spends only $12.50 a year for electricity for each person in her eight-member household. (Daytime rates in the two communities are comparable.) Such knowledge about energy costs is commonplace in Rösrath; the average housewife knows kilowatt rates as accurately as she does the size of her shoe. Some of Rösrath's residents also benefit from the kind of energy-saving measures that Carter is trying to encourage-for example, a device that stores heat generated by electricity ,at night, when the rate...
...kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned, and energy thrift should not have to be its own reward. So believe officers of the Seattle Trust & Savings Bank, who are now offering reduced-cost loans to customers who open new checking accounts and buy well-insulated homes, upgrade existing ones or purchase fuel-saving cars or boats. The buyer of a house that scores at least 15 points on an energy-saving rating system devised by the bank (five points for an efficient furnace, another five for ceiling insulation), can qualify for a 30-year mortgage at 8.5%, about a point below...
...proposal to establish a uniform per kilowatt-hour rate for all users of electricity, one of three placed on the November 2 Massachusetts ballot on Wednesday, could lead to a tuition hike for Harvard students if voters approve the measure...