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...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...
...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...
Tripping Out. Last week, after only 35 days of operation, Big Allis in the jargon of power engineers "tripped out" again-and again corridors darkened in many Manhattan buildings as residents tried to conserve power for such needs as air conditioning and elevators. After the million-kilowatt generator shut herself down. Con Ed reduced power to the city by 5% and purchased power from utilities in the eastern U.S. and Canada to make up for the shortage. New Yorkers alternately worried with affection about Big Allis and cursed the day they became dependent...
...fossil fuels (coal, oil). For another, utilities did not foresee the steep rise in the cost of money-and "nukes" (nuclear plants) are especially expensive to build. In addition, cooling towers required to control thermal pollution will boost the average plant's cost from $150 per kilowatt of capacity to $175. All these pressures caused utilities to cut down on their orders for nukes, from 31 in 1967 to seven...