Word: kilowatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessee Valley Authority, which is regarded (outside the U.S.) as one of the wonders of the world, during 1945 burgeoned into the biggest integrated utilties system in the U.S. In its twelfth annual report, TVA told Congress that last year it had produced nearly 12 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power, more than any other single company in the U.S. TVA's nearest competitor: Niagara Hudson Power Corp...
...long will it take to develop an atomic power plant of 100,000-kilowatt capacity which could compete with coal selling...
...most powerful radio station in Berlin, 100-kilowatt Berlin-Tegel, broadcasts in German, has its studios in the British sector, its transmitter in the French sector, and its lines run through the American sector. But what comes out over the air is all decided upon by the Russians...
...that energy is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. Light's speed is so enormous" (186,000 miles a second), and its square (self-multiplication) so much more enormous still, that one pound of matter is equal to more than ten billion kilowatt-hours of energy...
...Regularly irrigate the vast, fertile, but often drought-parched San Joaquin Valley. ¶Supply 1,500,000,000 kilowatt hours annually to northern California's power-hungry industry through five turbines...