Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATION'S LARGEST electric power utility and leading investor in strip-mined coal and nuclear power is encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...
...T.V.A. is now trying out two alternative sources of energy--wood-burning stoves and solar heating systems. If they are successful, they will be offered to all T.V.A. customers...
...Bonn government still ended up with what one official called a "most valuable" cache of documents and four other prisoners: Alfred Bahr, 58, a physicist in the solar-power division of Munich's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy...
Kendall said that non-electric forms of solar energy might supply about 10 per cent of total U.S. energy demands by the year...
Ehrenreich said that he is "bullish" on photovoltaics and that his panel's report has been regarded as optimistic about the long-term prospects of solar electricity. He noted that the Office of Management and Budget, with knowledge of the report's conclusions, has increased the budget for photovoltaics about 25 per cent...