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...made arable in this way and on which farmers might be willing to settle? Would it provide benefits in terms of flood control? Then one must ask whether a big power dam is the best way of meeting any or all of these objectives. Alternative possibilities, as a thermal power plant or a simple irrigation barrage, or both, have to be considered as possible choices...
...across the summer sky for a full eleven minutes. On its 18th pass around the world, an electronic command flashed up from earth, triggered rockets that altered the satellite's course and pointed it back toward earth. A quick blast from retrorockets slowed its descent, and a special thermal shield protected the satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent through the earth's atmosphere. The capsule, with its canine passengers, was ejected automatically, floated down separately. Both satellite and capsule, said the Russians, landed astonishingly close-within 6.2 miles-to a pre-selected...
News from Home. Their temporary home is a "molehole" adjacent to the Christmas Tree. It is a square, white (for thermal reflection) concrete structure entered through green corrugated steel tubes. It is partially blastproof (most of the 72 duty flight and ground crewmen live in the underground section) and completely soundproof. The area is guarded at the barbed-wire fences by police dogs and armed sentries. The guards even have a secret code-by voice or glance-to cover the possibility that an airman might enter in the company of a saboteur who has an unseen...
...Trieste passed through many thermal layers. When it came to the dense cold layers, it stopped. "We sat on them like going down steps," said Lieut. Walsh. The crew had to release some of the buoyant gasoline in its upper hull before it resumed its dark, downward voyage...
...electricity generated by the system comes from the electrodes, but waste heat can be harnessed to drive a conventional turbogenerator, adding importantly to the system's efficiency. Overall, Avco scientists estimate that a 450,000-kw. coal-fired MHD generator will produce electricity with the sensational thermal efficiency of 55%. The best that conventional plants...