Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane conquers the English Channel with solar power...
...about a quarter as much as Skylab, which came tumbling ignominiously back to earth in 1979, Salyut was durable and highly innovative in design. Among its technological features were two docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
...beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly and mindlessly traded between the pretentiously wise." Galbraith's radar for the "conventional wisdom" always makes his observations ring with that extra measure of clarity. When he wrote in a recent edition of The New York Review of Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when, in his memoirs, he laments the loss of financial eminence of his colleagues-- "Harvard professors (now) disappear at night into the distant Boston outskirts, there...
...defaulted on its short-term loans and begged its 225 creditor banks for an extra three years to restructure a debt of close to $5 billion. Last week the majority of the banks reluctantly agreed to the refinancing. The company also raised some cash by selling its Solar Turbines division to Caterpillar for $505 million...
...these examples conversion was made necessary by changes in the economic climate, several companies have voluntarily divested themselves of military research and production. The Acurex Corporation of Santa Clara, California, worked entirely on military projects in the 1960's, but now does 84 per cent of its work in solar energy and heating technology. The rank and file workers of Lucas Aerospace, formerly a major British military contractor, drew up and carried out the most comprehensive conversion plan in existence--complete with new products and marketing strategies designed to maintain both the number of jobs and level of profits...