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...persuade the Federal Reserve Board to increase the nation's money supply more rapidly. He also proposes a variety of Government inducements to private industry to step up hiring, including more money for on-the-job training programs and research assistance to develop promising technologies such as solar energy. Another Carter recommendation: an intriguing plan under which a company that would ordinarily lay off, say, 10% of its employees would instead keep all of them on the payroll for a shorter week−and the Government would share the extra cost...
...miles should be encouraged, for example, because they use energy efficiently. But burning coal or oil in a power plant to heat homes electrically should be discouraged because 97% of the energy is wasted. Indeed, all heating and cooling of U.S. buildings should be done with solar energy, which is virtually limitless and thus, at least in the long run, cheap...
While battling to save his company, Fraser says he is nonetheless easing himself out of the day-to-day management of Sea Pines so that he can have more time to pursue his latest passion: solar energy. Says he: "My objective was that I'd cease an active role in Sea Pines no later than the age of 50. I'm now 47. There are people in our company who can do the job with me acting as a consultant, providing them with an idea every two or three weeks." He says that he is currently getting "some...
...bookshelf in his bedroom is filled with scientific journals on aqua-farming, solar energy and the like. Brando's experiments in these areas are momentarily dormant because of a grandiose commercial enterprise that flopped, at a cost to him of $500,000. Two years ago Actor Brando became an innkeeper on Tetiaroa. On his tight little island, he constructed 21 thatch-roofed huts, including three bars and a dining room, and hired a staff of about...
...angle. Inside the sphere is a solid brass core, which contributes most of the 903-Ib. satellite's weight. Because it is so small yet has so much mass, LAGEOS will not be much affected by any traces of the earth's atmosphere, particles in the solar wind, or variations in the earth's gravity field. As a result, its orbit will be extremely stable, and its position at any time can be precisely determined...