Word: solarization
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...ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: HERE COMES THE SUN, AND THERE IT GOES AGAIN. No alternative-energy source has captured the imagination of lawmakers and Presidents like the sun. For three decades, solar energy's champions on Capitol Hill have insisted that the harnessing of this free and unlimited supply of energy was just around the corner. Representative Charles Mosher, Ohio Republican, was among the ardent supporters in 1974. "Much of the technology needed to utilize this nonpolluting source of power is nearly at hand," Mosher said in a speech on the House floor. "In fact, the consensus is that there...
With that notion in mind, President Carter in 1980 pushed legislation that he said would help "us to reach our goal of deriving 20% of all the energy we use by the end of this century directly from the sun." The forecast proved breathtakingly overreaching. Last year solar energy accounted for about seven one-hundredths of 1% of all U.S. energy consumption. The Bush energy package includes a $2,000 tax credit for individuals who buy and install photovoltaic or solar water-heating equipment in their residences...
Nothing new here: the government has been selling solar for years with generous tax incentives. Most of the public, though, isn't buying. And people who do often have memorable experiences. A quarter-century ago, the owners of a 13-story, 64-unit co-op at 924 West End Avenue on New York City's Upper West Side erected a steel framework on the rooftop, welded it to the building's steel beams and attached 117 solar-collector panels. Water heated by the sun flowed through pipes into a 5,000-gal. storage tank in the building's old coal...
...people with really sensitive skin, sunscreen sometimes isn't enough. More manufacturers are offering clothing--some fashionable, some burqaesque--specially designed to protect skin from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Solar Eclipse sells a "driving sleeve" for arms that hang out of car windows. Sun Precautions has a nose-to-neck ventilated mask (above). And Coolibar offers a kid's cap with a protective neck drape...
...Skin, late of Skunk Anansie, heads an all-star rendition of early songs that Bob Marley cut with Scratch - a bit of a surprise, since Perry claims to have turned his back on reggae music. But then even Perry's most fervent admirers suspect he rocketed out of our solar system some 20 years ago, fueled by a copious intake of rum, Tia Maria and marijuana. And, interviewing him, you can see what they mean: "It's come to my head that it's going to be a melting pot - melt down all evil spirits and evil souls," says Perry...