Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admittedly, solar technology hasn't developed to the point where huge solar funaces can be used to provide electricity for a large city. The same is true for wind power, but individual buildings can be heated and electrified by the kinds of solar and wind installation operating now in small numbers from New York to Los Angeles. However, one suspects that the thought of a country full of buildings with their own windmills and solar panels--creating electricity that the electric companies cannot meter--receives a very cool reception in company boardrooms. People who actually have installed such devices have...
...NUKES! he proclaimed with carrot sticks surrounded by mushrooms. He made solar power symbols out of lemon slices on Jell-O and hammers and sickles out of cheese rinds. He even constructed a nuclear power plant out of cottage cheese, tilted slightly to signify a meltdown...
...expansion of drilling in the U.S. and to the development of alternative sources of energy that would become economically competitive if oil prices were higher. Guarantee loans for the development of particularly chancy and costly alternatives: oil from shale and tar sands, natural gas from coal, and solar energy...
...center of a kind of mini-solar system, Jupiter is surrounded by at least 13 moons, and possibly a 14th. The four largest-lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto-are the so-called Galilean moons (named after their discoverer). Like the earth's moon, they are large enough to be considered small planets, but appeared as little more than fuzzy blobs in earth-bound telescopes. Now, Voyager's cameras have found that these moons are not only complex but also markedly different, their surfaces varying greatly in age, composition and appearance. Observed the U.S. Geological Survey's Laurence...
...surface of Callisto, the outermost of these moons, is riddled with craters, apparently the result of pummeling by meteorites for some 4 billion years. Although it is mountainless, Callisto has a feature never before seen in the solar system: a huge, smooth, circular basin rimmed with concentric ridges that look almost like a frozen tsunami (tidal wave). Appearances may not be entirely deceiving: the scientists speculated that these ridges were created when a particularly large meteorite hit, melted subsurface ice and caused the water to spread out from the place of impact, only to freeze rapidly again...