Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who support the almost romantic anti-technology stand of the party, which effectively used rallies and other mass-appeal tactics to block the construction of nuclear energy plants between 1977 and 1981. Conservation too remains a cornerstone of the Greens' projected "renaissance", in which windmills and solar power would supplant current "dirty" energy sources...
...ecstatic." So said a NASA spokesman last week as data began pouring down from one of the most unusual instruments ever launched into space. The cause of the jubilation is a one-ton cylindrical-shaped object called the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS. A first of its kind, the solar-powered spy in the sky will literally show the universe in a new light...
...progress since November and is expected to end Feb. 17. Mofaz and witnesses have testified that the military governor of the district, Lieut. Colonel Shalom Lugassi, to "enforce a curfew" in an Arab refugee camp, ordered his officers and men to shoot down alleyways, fire at the panels of solar heaters and break the wristwatches of Palestinian detainees. Mofaz is accused of assaulting some detainees and of failing to prevent the other defendants from doing...
Another fear about falling oil prices is that they could do more damage to the already faltering efforts to develop alternative energy sources. In West Germany, says Economist Liane Launhardt of Commerzbank, research money for vanguard work on solar energy, coal gasification and synthetic fuel may dry up. France is deeply committed to an ambitious nuclear program, which now generates 39% of the country's electricity. The French want to raise that figure to 70% by 1990, but if oil prices slide, the investment could end up being extremely uneconomical...
...there is a role for government. There are a range of technologies that will not be developed by the private sector, and in particular, would not be developed if oil prices were very low. This includes a limited number of synthetic fuel plants. Certainly more research and development on solar options, particularly photovoltaics should be undertaken...