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...York Public Service Commission last December, the new crisis became a fact in June. Within 24 days, Consolidated Edison not only announced that its big nuclear power plant at Indian Point would remain inoperative all summer, but also that its biggest single generator-"Big Allis," a million-kilowatt unit in Queens-had broken down and could not be repaired until December. These losses cut the utility's generating capacity by 17%. To provide new power, Con Ed quickly made arrangements to buy surplus energy from sources as far away as the Tennessee Valley and Canada. Then New York grimly...
Often spurred by the utilities' own advertising campaigns, Americans are so avid for laborsaving machines that power output now doubles every ten years to meet demand. By the end of the century, some experts say, the nation's electricity requirements may well rise sixfold. Worse, the kilowatt craze poses serious problems not only for power companies but also for nature and human health...
...since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with similar devices in several other countries, such as the U.S. Army's 30-kilowatt stove at Natick, Mass., Odeillo's 1,000-kilowatt structure is easily the Mount Palomar of solar furnaces...
...still a considerable time off-the region could enjoy unmatched prosperity. Because it is so geologically active, he speculates that underground fields of superheated water and steam lie just below the desert floor. If Ethiopia and her neighbors tapped this free source of power, they could produce millions of kilowatt hours of electricity at extremely low cost. The electricity could then be used to support large new industries-aluminum, fertilizers and petrochemicals. Thus, one of the world's most forbidding regions might be turned into an area of unbounded prosperity-at least for the foreseeable geological future...
...proposals is to force industry to pay the full social cost that its production entails. Businessmen worry that Government may force them to spend so much so quickly that it might impair the financial health of some companies. For a while at least, a ton of steel or a kilowatt-hour of power will probably cost consumers more if the manufacturing process avoids pollution. On the other hand, makers of anti-pollution equipment may well enjoy a bonanza (see following story). There may be fewer autos in cities but more mass transit...