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...more power if they were based on the moon-where power is in short supply. Dr. Thirring figures that after traveling from the moon, even the best-focused laser beam would cover a circle on the earth two miles in diameter. Even the light of a 1,000,000-kilowatt moon-based laser would increase the natural sunlight on this large area by only 10% . To do appreciable damage to one earthly city would call for a lunar powerhouse many times larger than any that has ever been built on earth...
...parliamentary support of powerful fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni. Nenni, who frankly regards this as a step toward the end of free enterprise in Italy, has scored a real coup: Italy's power industry has more than doubled its output in the last decade (to 60 billion kilowatt-hours last year) and has prospered despite the fact that its rates are the Common Market's cheapest. Even its critics could find only one thing to fault: the industry, going where the business is, has built much more power capacity in booming north Italy than in the poorer south...
Profits into Losses. At night. Havana's once bright lights are dimmed for economic reasons; each kilowatt-hour of electricity, the Communists tell the people, costs 345 grams of oil, which comes from Russia and is paid for with scarce sugar...
...antenna, according to a station representative, is "the tallest thing in Cambridge." It is 100 feet higher than the old tower, and increases WHRB-FM's power to a full kilowatt...
Some of them operate with elementary do-it-yourself kits and low-power equipment that costs less than $100; others go in for more elaborate commercial rigs, build their stations up to the maximum legal power limit (one kilowatt) and spend as much as $4,000. Currently, some 15,000 hams are participating in the annual field test of the American Radio Relay League. Encouraged by the test rules to use noncommercial power sources, they set up battery-powered transmitters or emergency generators a few weeks ago, and, sitting by their sets for a grueling 24 hours, they tried...