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...rural America. In the 1920s and '30s, thousands of them supplied electricity for Midwest farms. Then the cheap power brought by the New Deal's rural electrification program finally made most of the durable fixtures obsolete. During World War II, a giant 110-ft, 1,250-kilowatt wind-driven generator built on a hill called Grandpa's Knob outside Rutland, Vt., created a flurry of renewed interest in wind power -until one of the monster machine's eight-ton blades, weakened by metal fatigue, tore off and hurtled 750 ft. into the air before crash-landing...
...Almost 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity are being generated annually, still far below the design goal of 10 billion...
...rock, pumping in water and drawing out the resulting steam through a second hole. There are technical problems, chief among them the necessity for deep (16,400 ft.) drilling. But the lure is that electricity from some geothermal sources can be produced for less than 10 mills per kilowatt hour-easily competitive with oil, coal or nuclear plants...
...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...
...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...