Word: sun
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Kissinger pondered the address under the Acapulco sun last March. The main thing, he and Nixon agreed, would be to try to establish a broad, top-level political consensus on the U.S.-European issues. The unsatisfactory alternative, the President and Kissinger believe, would be to leave the future of the alliance to the varying interests of the technicians and experts who will actually conduct the forthcoming negotiations on trade, monetary reform and troop reductions...
...ransom-sized tax increases by the oil barons of the Middle East, environmental cleanup expenditures and other indirect expenses that U.S. consumers are hardly accustomed to having tacked onto their electric bills or service-station tabs. "The days of cheap energy are definitely behind us," Robert Dunlop, chairman of Sun Oil Co., told the Nassau conference...
...into electricity -a much more difficult task. One technique, proposed by Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a man-and-wife team of scientists at the University of Arizona, involves spreading a "solar farm," consisting of piping containing a mixture of chemicals, over 25 sq. mi. of desert. Heated by the sun, the mix would be used to make steam, which would power turbines capable of producing some 1,000 megawatts of electricity...
Most scientists believe that the long-range answer to man's energy needs may lie in thermonuclear fusion. The process that fires the sun and all the other stars, fusion releases enormous amounts of energy-but only small amounts of dangerous radioactivity -through the combination of light atoms of hydrogen to form heavier atoms of helium. The earth's seas contain an almost unlimited store of an isotope of hydrogen especially suitable as fusion fuel: deuterium, or heavy hydrogen...
ELIOT HOUSE JCR. Piano Recitals: Art Wilmarth on Fri., May 4, 8:30 p.m.; and Ophra Yerushalmi on Sun...