Word: outputs
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...troubling Americans, but that is beginning to change. Oil consumption in Japan, which grew last year by only 1.5% because of slack in its economy, is now climbing at 5% annually. Japanese officials expect a supply shortfall of perhaps as much as 5% by midsummer. Even Britain, whose oil output from the North Sea is already 1.5 million bbl. daily and climbing rapidly, is experiencing sporadic but spreading shortages at the pump. Last week West Germany as well suffered its first gasoline delivery cutbacks...
...special hearings into the productivity sag. From expert witnesses, the committee heard that despite the recent decline, the U.S. still has the world's highest level of productivity, but the lead is shrinking rapidly. In 1950 it took seven Japanese or three German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese or 1.3 Germans can do as well. Last year the Japanese had a productivity increase of 8%; the U.S. gain was only .3%. In this year's first quarter, U.S. productivity actually fell at an annual rate...
Solar. The sun's output of energy is enormous, and environmentalists regard it as the most pleasing energy alternative. But solar technology is in its infancy, and existing methods of drawing heat and electricity from the sun are inefficient and expensive. Today solar contributes less than 1% of the nation's needs...
...untapped power supply of 40,000 Mw from new and existing U.S. dams that have been allowed to fall into disuse, enough to power 100 cities the size of Washington. By some estimates, if all the hydro sites now under study could be repaired, they would yield the energy output of 16 nuclear plants for the cost of only 2% new nuclear plants...
Sandia Labs is experimenting in Albuquerque with a vertical-axis wind-turbine design that looks like a weird eggbeater. Like all windmills, it suffers commercially from having intermittent power output, but the small estimated cost of no more than 50 per kw-h can make it an attractive alternative, especially in inaccessible and rural areas, where power is costly...