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...blades begin turning in the summer breezes off Lake Erie later this month, they should produce as much as 100 kilowatts of electricity, enough to meet the needs of 30 one-family homes. Other projects range from a large eggbeater-shaped rotor being tested by New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories to small sail-driven devices created by such ecology-minded outfits as R. Buckminster Fuller's Windworks in Wisconsin and the food-growing New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod (TIME, March 17). Long Island's Energetics Nine, Inc., recently started selling wind-driven units that deliver from...
Excess Power. Unlike NASA'S traditional configuration, Sandia's upright eggbeater does not have to turn to face the breeze; its symmetrical shape offers the same surface to winds from any direction. Cribbing from jet aircraft, Polytechnic Institute of New York engineers are experimenting with a delta-shaped airfoil used in conjunction with standard windmill rotors. Pointing into the wind, the triangular whig amplifies the wind's power at least fivefold; the wind is focused into whirling streams that strike the rotors. Other teams at General Electric and at Connecticut's Kaman Corp., a helicopter manufacturer...
Colorado, 50 miles north of Denver $1,000-$2,000 per acre Utah, Sanpete County Up to $1,000 per acre New Mexico, at foot Sandia Mountain $5,000 per acre Missouri, 150 miles southwest of St. Louis $150-$200 per acre Missouri, north central $500 per acre Illinois, west of Fox River $3,000-plus per acre Northern Michigan $250-$300 per acre Alabama, 30 miles from Montgomery $150-$400 per acre
...20th and 25th days of each cycle. Furthermore, there was a noticeable correlation between accidents and sunspot activity, which peaks on an average of every 11 years. In 1968 and 1969, for example, when the number of sunspots reached their peak in recent years, the accident rate at Sandia was the highest in the past two decades...
...came from a study of magnetic-field readings in the Albuquerque area: the variations in magnetic-field strength seeming to correspond closely to increases and declines in the accident rate. The investigation also included an analysis of barometric pressure, which other scientists have found to influence human behavior. The Sandia team discovered that most accidents seemed to occur when the barometer was either rising or falling sharply...