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...century has passed since Thomas Edison first opened his Pearl Street Station to supply 85 New Yorkers with incandescent light. By 1920 the U.S. was producing 40 billion kw-h of electricity. Today it takes 25% of all its fossil fuels (plus some fissionable uranium) and produces 1.6 quadrillion kwh, or 34% of the world's output. The largest share of this power (40% ) goes to industry; the rest is split mostly be tween commercial (22%) and residential (34%) uses...
...equals a quadrillion-1,000,000,000,000,000-BTUs...
...measuring the difference between absorption at the top and the bottom of the shaft, Pound found the difference in frequency for a height of around 30 yards is approximately two parts per quadrillion...
...most plentiful natural resource in the U.S. is water. Some 1.5 quadrillion gallons annually fall on the nation, enough to fill a lake as big as the state of California and 50 ft. deep. But in many sections of the U.S. a serious water shortage exists or is developing. The real problem is one of distribution -how to get the water where it isn't. Shortages crop up because a growing population and a rising standard of living (e.g., 35 million bathrooms now v. about 13 million in 1930) are multiplying the demand faster than the U.S. is learning...
...Though his book sometimes reads like an airborne Information Please, it offers engaging proof that scientific fact can be at least as strange as science fiction. Is there any meaning to the expression "light as air"? Nonsense, says Murchie, the air surrounding the earth really weighs more than 5 quadrillion tons. Anyone lost at sea? Butterflies offer directions-in-reverse to the nearest coast because their flights over water are generally suicidal-away from land. Trying to make conversation in Tibet? Better stop talking by midmorning. because after that the wind sets up a "howling, skin-blasting roar." Along with...