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...group of Harvard scientists--working under a $280,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--has constructed a new device to gather data on the solar corona...
...coronograph is designed to create an artificial solar eclipse, thereby permitting observation of the ultraviolet rays of the corona, the portion of the sun's atmosphere which extends well beyond the visible disk...
...runs for the presidency in 1980, as many expect, California Governor Jerry Brown will be ready with his own energy program. Among other things, the $500 million Brown plan for California, unveiled after New Year's, proposes using windmills, wood chips, walnut shells, rice hulls, solar panels, coal gasification and hot water as alternatives to fossil fuels. Says Brown: "Americans seem to be getting less inventive. I'm going to try to stimulate things the best I can through energy innovation...
...detected through ordinary optical and radio telescopes, they must be radiating more energy than 50 to 100 galaxies, each of which contains hundreds of billions of stars. Yet careful measurements by radio telescopes indicate that a quasar is much smaller than a galaxy and perhaps no bigger than a solar system. The problem: no physical process yet known to scientists can generate such incredible energy in so tiny a volume...
...alternate types of energy, Goodwin says solar energy is impractical in the Boston area climate. "Payback is in the 20 year range," he says. Goodwin adds Harvard looking into solar energy when building the new athletic complex...