Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea seems to have caught on almost overnight. In 1973, before the Arab oil embargo shook the Western economies, there were only two small "resource recovery" plants in the U.S. processing garbage into energy. Today 16 full-fledged plants are in operation using varied technologies, another twelve are under construction, and many more are in different stages of planning. The latest and largest municipality to join the switch to garbage power is New York City, which in December announced that it was negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy...
Chicago already has a municipally owned waste-processing plant with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons...
...sources of energy against the day when North Sea oil runs out, 3) expand public services in order to reduce unemployment, which last month declined only slightly from its autumn-long postwar record level, to 6% of the labor force, 4) increase investment in modernizing Britain's woefully outdated plant and equipment, 5) cut taxes. The decision, which will not be made until Parliament debates the issue in the next few months, undoubtedly will be some combination of several of these alternatives...
...holds some inflationary dangers of its own. Britain has the lowest productivity and most antiquated industrial plant and equipment of any major European state. A tax cut could well make British customers demand more goods and services than the country can produce, leading to a rash of domestic price increases and sucking in imports at an inflationary clip...
When Chicagoan Joseph Siwek asked his mechanic to do some work on his new 1977 Oldsmobile last winter, he was angered to discover that the engine under the hood was not an Olds Rocket V-8 but a less expensive Chevrolet power plant. The discovery led to a revelation that GM had put Chevy engines not only into Oldsmobiles, but into some 1977 Buicks and Pontiacs as well; GM became the target of about 250 state and private lawsuits. Last week, after months of legal maneuvering, the company reached a settlement with 44 state attorneys general, who had been suing...