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Ripple control is aimed at saving generating costs by turning off water heaters twice a day during periods of peak consumer demand, when electricity is most expensive to produce. So far, ripple control has worked: according to test results, the system has saved roughly $60 a year per heater in electricity costs, a saving that Green Mountain Power (G.M.P.) has returned to participants in the experiment in the form of monthly $5 rebates...
...Complaints. The figures suggest that if every water heater in the G.M.P. customer area were ripple-controlled, the utility could reduce its peak power load by 10%. Moreover, in the nine months since G.M.P. installed ripple control, not a single customer has complained. Indeed, since the water in the heaters stays hot for about four hours, and the heaters are rarely shut off for more than three hours at a time, ripple-controlled customers evidently have all the hot water they need available at any time. "Goodness," said Emma Breen as she took her signs down, "I've been...
...ironed out-was interference: electric garage-door openers were shutting off people's heaters. Another method under study by G.M.P. is thermal storage, which involves storing water heated to 280°F. in the home in pressurized tanks (to keep it from boiling away) for use during peak hours...
...Novelist Brian Moore, 54, turns a potential stale helping of white wine and sympathy into an enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again...
...just 40, a millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with...