Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Solar cells are unlikely to generate more than one per cent of the United States' electricity until the next century, a panel of experts chaired by Henry Ehrenreich, Gordon McKay professor of Applied Physics said in a report released Tuesday...
Eventually, however, solar cells will probably be an important energy source, the report said...
...panel, sponsored by the Presidential Office of Technology Policy and the Department of Energy, studied the promises and problems of photovoltaics (solar cells...
First stop will be Atlanta, where Teng will tour a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant and a solar energy facility at Georgia Tech and dine with several Governors and other dignitaries. Next, in Houston, Teng may call at the NASA Space Center, look at some specimens of the latest oil-drilling technology, and sample a Texas-style barbecue. Finally, he will probably be shown the Boeing 747 assembly line at Everett, Wash., before heading back to China...
...Department of Energy is spending $42 million on wood-energy projects of all sorts, but the tax provisions of the Carter energy program do not give homeowners credits for the purchase of wood stoves, even though such credits are granted to families that save energy by adding insulation, solar panels and even windmills to their homes. One idea getting some attention from DOE officials is a feasibility study by a subsidiary of New Hampshire's Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. to build a wood-fueled electricity-and steam-generating plant in New England that would produce 30 megawatts, or enough...