Word: kilowatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966); psychopaths in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Frenzy (1972); and suspense in North by Northwest (1959), Saboteur (1942) and The Birds (1963). Hitchcock is the only film director who has consistently sent pulses through film viewers' nervous systems that feel like 1000 kilowatt bursts of electricity--most critics call that "fear" for lack of a better word. Ch. 2, 8 p.m., 1 hour. Repeat...
...time when kilowatt counting may pass calorie counting as a favored American preoccupation, and the Emergency Energy Bill calls for a 25% cutback in power use, many people are wondering what they can do to help preserve the nation's energy, and save themselves some money. In fact, they can do much on the road and at home. Some guides...
...tallying electric consumption is the kilowatt hour, or kwh. -1,000 watts of electricity burned over one hour. The 1972 national average cost of a kwh. was 2.29?. Deplorably, most utilities still encourage customers to burn more power by reducing the cost as they use more...
...reducing air-conditioning levels in federal buildings, for instance, 113 million kilowatt-hours of electricity (equivalent to 270,000 bbl. of oil per year) would be conserved. Similarly, the number of trips by federal officials, who now travel some 250 million miles a year could be cut by 10%, saving about 1.7 million gallons of gasoline...
...said, "ecological idiocy." Idiocy or not, the U.S. appears committed to a constant expansion of its electricity production. Last week, in a massive survey of the problems and prospects, the Federal Power Commission declared that the nation's present generating capacity of 340 million kilowatts must nearly quadruple by 1990. Meantime, the price of electricity will double (to 3.50 per kilowatt hour), reflecting higher fuel prices plus the cost of raising some $500 billion to build new power plants. As for the conflict caused by "contradictory public attitudes"-the expectation of "instant power" v. the concern for a cleaner...