Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the deaths of 53 followers of an obscure cult whose bodies were found in Switzerland and Canada in early October. The arrests -- in Southern France, Brittany in the northwest and in the Paris area -- were made in connection with the finances of the cult, the Order of the Solar Temple. Police did not release other details, including the charges brought against them. One of those being held in the confines of a French slammer is Christian-Marie Le Gall, a doctor who shared a medical office with Luc Jouret, the sect's dead guru who was a practitioner...
...real growth market lies in the developing world. Solar systems offer villages the opportunity to leapfrog developed nations and move directly to 21st century power generation. Mason Willrich, vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development, observes that developing nations gain a double benefit from renewable power because they can manufacture the components of their energy supply system, thus expanding their industrial base. Building solar- and wind- energy equipment and installations creates jobs and reduces oil imports...
...photovoltaic electricity 80% -- to levels competitive with conventional power production. Paul Basore, who oversees research on . photovoltaics at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, predicts that within 20 years, homeowners and small businesses everywhere but in the gloomiest climates will find it most economical to generate their own solar power...
Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Massachusetts and author of The Prize, is more cautious about forecasting the coming solar era; he has watched market pressures obliterate past predictions about the future of energy. He also notes that oil and coal companies are not standing idle but are vigorously trying to lower costs and provide cleaner- burning fuels. "The critical question," Yergin contends, "is whether any innovation meets the test of the marketplace." Older and perhaps wiser than they were in the 1970s, the apostles of renewable energy claim they are now poised to meet that test...
...Hubble Space Telescope has performed some spectacular feats of science since a crew of astronauts heroically corrected the instrument's blurred vision last December. The orbiting observatory has snapped dramatic pictures & of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashing into Jupiter, discovered hundreds of what seem to be solar systems in the making, and provided proof that giant black holes lurk in the cores of galaxies. But all this was just a warm-up for the Hubble's most eagerly awaited mission: to gauge the age of the universe. The question of how old the heavens are is not only fascinating...