Word: kilowatter
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...voracious demands of over worked air conditioners resulted in power failures from New York to Nebraska, and in dozens of new kilowatt-output records for utility companies in between. At the peak of the heat in Memphis, beer sales foamed 40% above normal. Throughout the swelter belt, appliance stores were soon as bare of air conditioners and fans as if they had never been invented. "There comes a point," exulted a Manhattan dealer, "when a person can't stand it any longer-even if he knows it's only going to be for just one more night...
...proposed reservoir would store water pumped up from the Hudson and release it to run generators by its descent. With a 12-million-kilowatt capacity, the $162 million Consolidated Edison installation would be the largest of its kind in the world...
...that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours of nuclear power, or 70% as much as they now get from all power sources...
...lower-cost uranium has not only made nuclear power competitive with conventional power but made it the cheapest of all available forms of electricity in many parts of Europe. German power experts calculate that a large modern nuclear plant can churn up power for 6 to 61 mills per kilowatt-hour v. 71 to 9 mills for an equivalent coal plant. Hydroelectric power is cheaper than both, but is not widely available. Switzerland and Sweden are opting for nuclear power because they are running out of water sources...
...demonstrators Wednesday carried hastily prepared signs that said "Harvard: Let There Be Light" and "We Refuse to listen until we can see." Inside, Richard T. Gill, professor of Economics, joked about the matter throughout his lecture and used kilowatt-hours as one standard for comparing developed and underdeveloped countries...