Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plentiful though it is, heavy oil poses problems that begin with getting it out of the ground. Because the crude is so sticky, less than 10% of it will flow to the surface by conventional pumping methods. One way to liquefy the goo is to force superheated steam into deep crude wells for as long as two weeks at pressures as high as 2,500 lbs. per sq. in. The extraction also requires huge amounts of energy. Just to heat enough steam to liquefy and then force three barrels of heavy oil up a well shaft can take as much...
...work done in the world's factories? Sure you have. Well, Toffler has too, and he repeats it in ingratiating detail, describing the steel foundry he once toiled in. "I swallowed the dust, the sweat and smoke of the foundry. My ears were split by the hiss of the steam, the clank of the chains, the roar of pug mills." Leaving to find a better job, Toffler happened on copies of Marx and Weber and Thoreau and U.S. News and World Report. His bibliography runs 30 pages, and lists 534 books. In his dedication he thanks his wife, without whose...
...long form also wants to know if a foreign-born resident speaks English "very well, well, not well [or] not at all." Answers to this will provide information required by the Voting Rights Act. Future energy programs could profit from the answers concerning how a residence is heated (by steam, warm-air furnace, fireplaces, etc.), the fuel used, whether there is air conditioning and if respondents get to work by car, bus, subway, bicycle, on foot or other means...
Emphasizing Theory. The Kemeny commission found that training did not pay enough attention to the theory of how the system worked. One mistake of the T.M.I, operators, for example, was their failure to realize that hot water in the reactor core boiled into steam because of the loss of pressure during the accident. Says Toscas: "We're planning to add much more study of the basic theory of heat transfer, fluid flow, water and steam theory-all the stuff the operators flew right by before and which normal operating conditions don't require...
...calm the spirit, Byron suggested, apply "rum and true religion." Alas for Georgian simplicities. The rum has turned to water, the religion to immersion. Relentlessly, Americans have sought spiritual calm in steam baths, saunas, Jacuzzi whirlpools and hot tubs. Now, in the quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal...