Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mason's campaign is focusing on the economic issues of the district, which has a very high unemployment rate. "I would stimulate the economy in the Northeast through tax incentives and training programs, and would try to get the solar institute here," he says...
...Congress has blocked-complete deregulation of oil and gas prices to allow what he calls "the efficient means" of market forces to encourage conservation and development of new energy supplies. The President is also calling for programs to increase the use of coal, to harness "the unlimited potential of solar energy and fusion power," and to facilitate the construction of nuclear-power plants. He is generally opposed, however, to mandatory energy conservation measures...
...right up until a few weeks ago, and in many respects it turned out to be exactly what she needed. Although at first she was assigned to mundane office tasks, as is often the lot of interns in large capitol offices, she was soon given responsibility for research on solar energy projects, a particular interest of McClellan's. Between reading documents, writing reports, and traveling back to Arkansas for hearings, she became involved in her work and conscious of a return of confidence in herself, particularly in her writing...
...very slowly. Nuclear plants now generate about 9% of the nation's electric power, up from 4.5% in 1973. But coal, despite a drive to convert oil-and gas-fired plants to it, still supplies well under 50% of the country's electricity needs. Other energy sources-solar power, shale oil-remain drawing-board daydreams. By contrast, the Japanese, who are much more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. is, have sharply stepped up work on such alternatives as nuclear power (twelve plants in operation, eleven under construction, five more in the blueprint stage) and geothermal power...
...Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and many others blame the earth's cooling on an increase of dust particles in the atmosphere; the particles act like tiny mirrors, reflecting back some of the sunlight sinking the atmosphere and depriving the earth's surface of solar heat...