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...become such a fact of life in the U.S. that many Americans have simply become resigned to it. The weary mood intensified last week with two bits of news: wholesale prices rose at a clip that threatened soaring prices for manufactured goods in months to come, and Ford Motor Co. raised prices on its 1974-model cars and trucks-even though it had signed an agreement not to do so. The Government's soon-to-be-defunct Cost of Living Council seemed powerless to stop the rise. Only the Federal Energy Administration appeared capable of vigorous anti-inflationary action...
...Electrogyro. Swiss designers pointed the way in the 1950s with a flywheel-powered bus called the Electrogyro, which operated in Europe and Africa for a number of years. To start up, the bus drew electricity from overhead wires to drive a combination motor-generator attached to a 3,300-lb. steel flywheel under the floor of the vehicle. When the motor had the flywheel turning at a speed of 3,000 r.p.m., the driver would break contact with the overhead wires. At this point, the motor would become a generator powered by the heavy flywheel, which would be kept spinning...
...original Swiss system, the flywheel (housed in a vacuum chamber to reduce friction from the air) will be used to produce electricity for the vehicle's 150-h.p. motor rather than to drive the wheels directly. If the flywheel's speed drops below its normal operational minimum (6,000 r.p.m.), the motor can be operated on power from overhead electric lines. Simultaneously, this power source-or in the future, underground transformers-can also be used to spin up the flywheel again...
Lockheed engineers have incorporated a new twist: regenerative braking. When the driver applies the brakes on San Francisco's steep hills, electrical switching will also turn the drive motor into a generator. In that mode, it will act as a drag, helping to slow the trolley, much as an auto engine does while the car is coasting downhill in gear. At the same time, it will be providing power for the flywheel's generator-motor. With this system, two-thirds of the energy needed to get up the hill should be recouped on the run down...
...last meeting this year, the ACSR also supported a resolution calling on Continental Oil Company to withdraw its operations from Namibia, but opposed a resolution asking Ford Motor Company to publish a report on its operations in the Philippines...