Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened. Their droppings will be placed into fermenter tanks filled with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow...
...alpine valley of unparalleled beauty, a spruce-and-birch wilderness without roads or ski lifts or other signs of human intrusion. Only the howl of the wind-or of an occasional wolf-now disturbs the silence. But man is on the way. Last week the Alaska capital site planning commission chose the design of a new state capital to rise in the valley. Unless opponents of the plan develop unexpected new strength, this idyllic subarctic landscape will become a kind of Brasilia of the North-though hardly as monumental as its Latin counterpart and far more in harmony with...
...plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot's nightmare. For these reasons, Alaskans have long debated a possible change of capitals. In 1974, after two unsuccessful initiatives, they finally voted to make the move, and the hunt began for a new site...
There were other considerations. The climate of the site had to be reasonably benevolent, and the annual snowfall modest. The soil had to be firm (which automatically excluded the four-fifths of Alaska that is shifting, meltable permafrost), and it had to be less prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions than are many other parts of the seismically active state. Finally, as a symbol of the rugged grandeur of America's last frontier, the site had to be scenically impressive without intruding on salmon-spawning streams, bear dens or other wildlife sanctuaries...
Still, some time may pass before construction begins. Pockets of resistance remain; some residents of Juneau and Fairbanks, annoyed because the new site is close to Anchorage, are still trying to scuttle the move. No one knows yet how the future capital will be financed (estimated cost: $2.64 billion) or even what it will be called. One obvious possibility: Denali...