Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Southwest is a series of boxy monitors that transmit data about the flow of the company's precious fossil fuels. The telecommunications devices draw their power not from the fuels they monitor but from shiny panels that capture the energy of the sun. Are these solar-powered invaders of the oil patch the technological portents of a coming era? Or are they merely emblematic of the bit part solar has played thus far in the world's energy equation? No one knows for sure, but corporate investors, who have been wary for the past decade, are lining...
...ventures have produced more noble failures than the quest to power civilization with renewable energy from geophysical forces -- the winds, the tides and, most of all, the sun's rays. "To date the history of solar has been the story of Tantalus: year after year the prize has remained, maddeningly, just beyond reach," noted a FORTUNE magazine story. It ended on a hopeful note: "The period of solar frustration is drawing to a close." Date of the story: September 1979. In fact, the period of solar frustration was just beginning...
...glut of the 1980s sapped any motivation to develop alternative energy sources. Solar moved to the fringes of public consciousness in the U.S. as the Reagan Administration eliminated most of the federal funding for research, and big oil companies dropped their development programs. Result: solar accounts for less than 0.5% of the power generated in the U.S. today, instead of the 2% to 5% envisioned in the late 1970s...
...nearest , supermarket is 50 miles away. Television too has largely bypassed the town. Arietta is too remote and unprofitable to be wired for cable, and a good antenna brings in only two or, at most, three stations. Between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. during the summer, because of solar interference, even those stations disappear...
Ending an international manhunt, Swiss officials investigating the deaths of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple identified the remains of the cult's leader, Luc Jouret, among the dead. Nevertheless, the motive behind what officials now believe was mass murder, followed by mass suicide, remains a mystery. They suspect that the Prophet of Doom may have indeed believed the end of the world was near...