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...distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
...production and use were stimulated, along with the use of pollution-control devices; and the carefully phased decontrol of natural gas prices would bring predictability to the market, increase exploration for new supplies and reduce waste of this clean-burning fuel. The new bills also included strong encouragement for solar-power development. [In a second round of energy legislation, Carter achieved the deregulation of domestic oil prices, the levying of a tax on the windfall profits from the resulting price increases and the creation of an $88 billion program to develop synthetic fuels...
...show with 24 Audio-Animatronic scenes depicting such momentous occasions as the invention of the wheel and the first traffic jam. The Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that...
...could avert an energy crisis, Yergin concedes--provided there is stability in the Mideast, accelerated development of alternate energy technology (i.e., synthetic fuels, nuclear, and solar), and substantial domestic conservation. However, because such prospects currently are more dream than impending reality, Yergin finds the problem too important to wait out with fingers crossed...
...Solar energy seems an obvious answer to Hawaii's problems. Already there are an estimated 20,000 solar hot-water units statewide, saving as much as $6 million a year. On Kauai, G.N. Wilcox Hospital has installed a photovoltaic system that nils 4% of its electrical and 40% of its hot-water needs. But such systems are expensive and generate electricity only in daylight hours. Even the sun has not cooperated this year: thanks partly to dust clouds from Mexico's El Chichón volcano, Hawaii has had the lowest level of direct solar radiation...