Word: sandias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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
Sunset Peak. Sandia scientists arrived at their remarkable findings by assembling the records of thousands of accidents in the laboratories for periods of up to 20 years and analyzing them with the aid of a computer. Plotting disabling injuries against the phases of the moon in which they occurred, for example, the researchers found "the possibility of a heightened accident susceptibility for people during the phase similar to that in which they were born, and for the lunar phase which is 180° away from that in which they were born." Equally significant, these accidents tended to peak in cycles...
...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...