Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Solar power was an exotic new technology when John Schaeffer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and helped start a primitive commune in the woods of northern California. But he was a tinkerer, and in his spare time he managed to rig up a solar-powered television set so he wouldn't have to miss his favorite shows. Soon Schaeffer was selling solar panels to his fellow urban refugees at a time when, he recalls, "only dope growers could afford them." Today Schaeffer's beard has become a white goatee, and his Real Goods Trading...
...itself the Titan's three-satellite payload -- code-named Pacea -- was not indispensable to current intelligence operations. The solar-powered satellites, each about as big as a midsize car, are part of a continuing surveillance program called Classic Wizard, which is designed to track ships at sea, especially those from the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. If the three satellites had been deployed as planned into a triangle in space, their electronic sensing devices would have calculated the position of ships on the basis of radio and radar transmissions. But the U.S. has two such systems...
That is when the earth will be passing close to the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle, which reappeared last year for the first time since 1862, swooped around the sun on Dec. 12 and headed back toward the outer solar system. Like all other comets, Swift-Tuttle sheds debris consisting largely of conglomerations of ice and dust, most of it boiled from the comet when it is in the vicinity of the sun. This material remains in orbit and gradually disperses along the comet's entire path, in effect forming a giant debris- laden tube in space. Each August...
...cost of the space station by at least half over the next four years, NASA uncharacteristically but bravely admitted it couldn't be done and came back with choices costing from $12 billion to $13 billion, ranging from a glorified shuttle hitching post to a giant can with solar-panel wings. In choosing the former option, which resembles the original Freedom, Clinton satisfied the aerospace industry and its supporters in Congress. He also placated Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency, which have been suckered into spending billions of their own on the space station and don't want...
Variations: Red Sox hats are a Boston favorite. Straw pith helmets, boaters or cowboy hats are cool, as are hats with solar-powered fans built in. Terry-cloth hats can be soaked in cold water, then placed for an evaporative cooling effect...