Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national energy economy based on an incredibly toxic carcinogen, plutonium; the public's blindness to the incredible costs of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to fuel fabrication to power reactors to reprocessing plants to waste storage; the deliberate suppression of alternate energy sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents killing up to 45,000 people--these are our concerns. These are the issues that we feel are worth the strongest possible opposition, that are worth imprisonment. Until the threats of meltdown disasters, low-level radiation, perpetual waste storage...
...mind of an engineer, is confident that any such pessimistic view is wrong. To doubt that new technological breakthroughs are ahead is essentially a failure of the imagination. Biologist Barry Commoner is one of many scientists who believe that new energy sources will be developed. Even now, he claims, "solar energy could reduce our energy budget...
...newly created Energy Committee, chaired by Senator Henry Jackson, will have the authority to examine all the nontax aspects of the plan, such as fixing the price for natural gas, setting efficiency standards for appliances and approving solar-energy programs. Jackson, whom Carter beat badly in the primaries last year, has been fiercely independent of the Carter Administration. Still, Jackson last week issued a statement backing the "President's efforts to obtain a comprehensive energy program," although he warned that Carter's proposed gas tax "won't get anywhere." This week the industrious Jackson will begin...
...reported (TIME cover, April 25) and previewed in his Monday night speech. In essence, the President hopes to arrest growing U.S. fuel demand through conservation, and to rely on plentiful coal and conventional nuclear energy to stretch out supplies of oil and natural gas until new forms of energy (solar, geothermal and thermonuclear fusion) become the nation's major power resources in the next century...
...Salesman Charles McKeown listened approvingly to Carter's speech last week. Says he: "We have been very cognizant of saving energy. We put up awnings, caulked our windows and used exhaust fans instead of air conditioning last summer when the temperature was below 78°. We could consider solar energy. The tax incentive rang noisy bells in our heads-we are being clobbered on taxes." Mrs. Gibson plans to respond to Carter's challenge by calling in an architect to consult on insulation and on the hot water supply...