Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tests of Einstein's theory. M.I.T.'s Shapiro and his colleagues have been sending radio signals past the rim of the sun, bouncing them off other planets and clocking their return to earth to an accuracy of better than a millionth of a second. The object: to see if solar gravity slows the signals down by the amount forecast by Einstein. So far, general relativity has passed these and other tests without exception. Says Yale Physicist Feza Gursey: "Einstein's theories tend to become stronger with time...
...People," Celia Dugger contends that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the federal utility that supplies energy to much of the southeastern United States, is becoming progressive. Dugger points out that the TVA has started to encourage the development of alternative energy sources, such as a small-scale solar and wood heating systems, and that this shift toward thinking small has been encouraged by the Carter Administration. But Dugger fails to tell the full story. The bulk of the TVA budget continues to go to large scale, ecologically destructive energy development, more so, unfortunately, under the Carter administration than ever before...
...Sciences, he is interested in all areas of direct scientific research. After a talk last week with White House Science Adviser Frank Press on future Chinese-American projects, Fang left for Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. There he inspected the Landsat photographs surveying natural resources and a solar-energy farm that can produce 400 kw of electricity. In Houston, he visited the Texas Medical Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Methodist Hospital. But the highlight of Fang's U.S. trip was Los Angeles. Fang was given a detailed tour of Lockheed's L-1011 assembly plant...
...administration of the solar demonstration project in Memphis harks back to the more democratic methods of the 1930s. Instead of relying on a skilled labor force already employed, the agency is training people from the unemployment lists to install the solar systems. In addition, they have given all their orders for solar equipment to small businesses that are being bought up by oil giants like Atlantic Richfield, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil. This is a particularly ominous trend as these companies have an interest in seeing that solar technology is not marketed until their oil, coal, and nuclear resources...
...T.V.A. experiment also enables middle and low income consumers to buy expensive solar water heating equipment by giving them a loan at an interest rate of 3.37 per cent to be paid back over twenty years. Even without any publicity for the project, 900 people have volunteered to participate, and Freeman imagines a day when all the valley's residents will use solar energy to heat their water. There is a second project cranking up that will test solar space heating systems...