Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOLAR: ERDA'S fiscal '76 request: $70.3 million, increased to $143.7 million by the House Energy Subcommittee, up 274% from fiscal '75. Most of the technology is at hand for using the inexhaustible energy of the sun. The challenge now is to come up with cheap and reliable systems. Under the Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974, 1,000 demonstration homes and office buildings are planned. ERDA and the state of Connecticut will build 20 solar-powered homes for the aged; estimates are that heating and hot-water bills will be cut by 80%. Under...
Large-scale commercial installations are a long way off because they would require vast "farms" of expensive solar collectors. But solar energy, once explored only by smaller companies, now is attracting such big firms as PPG Industries, Lockheed, Westinghouse and Revere Copper & Brass. This week General Electric will show off its solar-heated Valley Forge, Pa., plant to the public; the system uses 5,000 sq. ft. of roof-borne solar collectors and is expected to save 12,000 gal. of fuel oil in an average heating season...
...rises and sets each day with the stars rather than the sun - or was it Miss Bell?" If so, says Gold, "she deserves a major share of the honor." For, he adds, "that realization would have been the first firm indication that the signals were coming from beyond the solar system and represented the true moment of discovery...
...tiny craft had been in space for 16 months and was nearly out of steering fuel. Yet flight controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week managed to keep Mariner 10 alive and performing well through its third -and closest-encounter with the solar system's innermost planet. As it passed only 200 miles above Mercury's scorched surface, the half-ton robot swooped over the planet's north polar region, sent back some 300 closeup pictures and confirmed a puzzling fact-that Mercury has an innate magnetic field
...Venusian gravity, it plunged toward the sun, approaching Mercury in March and again in September 1974. On those flybys, Mariner got the first close look at the planet and detected a weak magnetic field that some scientists thought might be caused by Mercury's interaction with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from...