Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutions around the earth, made four long space walks and watched the sun rise and set more than 1,300 times. In their Apollo ferry ship, they will be carrying 900 lbs. of scientific experiments, thousands of pictures of the earth, sun and that elusive visitor to the solar system, the comet Kohoutek. Magnetic tapes holding scientific data about the earth alone could stretch for 19 miles...
Scientists will be kept busy for years studying the accumulated findings - to say nothing of the dramatic observations already reported from space. Astronaut Gibson, a solar physicist by training, managed to photograph for the first time the very beginnings of a solar flare - a sudden, violent release of enormous energy from the sun's interior. Looking earthward, the astronauts observed strange, swirling eddies in warm ocean currents that are apparently involved in the exchange of heat between water and atmosphere, an important factor in global weather and climate...
...Increasing Government spending for energy research by almost 100%, to nearly $2 billion in the fiscal year that begins in July. Of that, $724 million will go for nuclear-power research, $427 million for coal studies and $154 million for solar and geothermal projects...
...dwindling steadily, and late last week FEO officials agreed to help Con Ed increase its reserves to a twelve-day supply. Airlines were also running short of fuel. Figuring that conventional sources of energy will remain scarce and costly, executives of RCA announced in Manhattan a major investment in solar energy. Next year the company will build a $6 million con-ference-and-dining-room addition to its Rockefeller Center skyscraper that will use solar energy for lighting and heating, though engineers at work on the project have not yet decided which solar processes they will employ...
...will probably have about doubled its present energy consumption. Domestic oil and natural gas, which today account for two-thirds of the nation's energy, will be able to meet only 40% of demand. Nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal and other nonfossil fuel sources will take care of another 20%. To fill the remaining 40% gap, the nation faces two likely choices. It can import much more oil and gas-and pay heavily in terms both of balance of payments and political dependence on foreign countries. Or it can turn to coal, which now provides 20% of U.S. energy...