Word: kilowatt
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...basic premise of "Green Lights" is to switch all of the light sources at a given site from the kilowatt-crunching fixtures of the present to more energy-efficient versions of the fluorescent bulb. Fine reports that these bulbs "don't flicker or buzz" as do the vast majority of fluorescents now in use on campus. In addition to saving up to 35 percent of normal energy use, these newer bulbs last for up to 10 years, according to information distributed...
...years, the wind industry's goal has been to produce power at rates similar to oil's: roughly a nickel for a kilowatt. Machines now operating in California can produce energy at 7 cents per kW. In areas of consistent high winds, the next generation, currently being deployed, will bring that cost down to 5 cents by 1995, and more advanced designs are likely to shave off another penny by the year 2000. While many locales do not have enough wind to use the technology, enhancements already in the works will expand by a factor of 20 the area...
...gauges, lights, signs shouting HIGH VOLTAGE! -- is necessary just to light a few streets or farmyards, heat up a few dozen toasters, run a few score washing machines. Because, for all its complexity, this installation produces only enough electricity to run some 400 households -- a total of 2.5 million kilowatt-hours a year...
...also believed the project would benefit society in another way. Every kilowatt generated from the river's waters means less burning of fossil fuels, and less atmospheric pollution, less increase in the greenhouse effect. Operating Brockway Mills will save 4,000 bbl. of oil each year. And Buckley readily admits that he hoped to make a profit from his work -- a concept known as doing well while doing good...
...Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant took eleven years to build, cost $4.5 billion in excess of its original $1 billion price and has yet to churn out a single kilowatt. The plant has generated only trouble so far, which it produced in abundance last week. Public Service of New Hampshire, owner of the largest single stake in Seabrook, a 35.6% share, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the first major investor-owned utility to do so since the Depression. Though Seabrook was ready to run by the fall of 1986, its start-up has been delayed by political and public...