Word: thermostatic
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...student felt the disappearance was owing to the energy crisis: "Nixon is burning the tapes for fuel since he has turned the White House thermostat down." Another found cinematic possibilities: "Spiro got them for John Wayne, who will make a film entitled Who Slew Dickey-Poo? It will be filmed in Paranoia." Yet another suggested that "Pat Gray threw the tapes away in his Christmas trash." Other explanations were tonsorial ("Haldeman made his new hairpiece out of synthetic materials made from shredded tapes"), recreational ("Bebe Rebozo made them into eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting...
...Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat down to 65°: they put up a transparent plastic tent that is kept at a toasty 75° by the girl's body heat. Reporting on what he is doing to conserve energy, an eight-year-old Miami boy noted: "I walk to school every...
Only when our oil reserves are depleted and our Government crawls on its hands and knees to King Feisal to lick the oil from his feet, only then will I alter my driving habits, do my wash in cold water and lower my thermostat...
...only answer. The increasing dependence of the U.S. on foreign raw materials indicates that the nation has been living beyond its means. In the energy field, in particular, the country badly needs a conservation program to prevent waste. As Government spokesmen have pointed out, if every thermostat in the U.S. were set three degrees lower this winter, the nation could save at least 300,000 bbl. of fuel a day. If motorists would slow down from 70 to 60 m.p.h., their cars would consume 11% less gasoline; a car driven at 50 m.p.h. will burn 23% less. After decades...
HOUSING. Together with commerce, housing consumes 35% of energy production. A major saving can be made with proper insulation, because in the average home about 25% of the heat escapes through the roof. Turning down the thermostat can also make a big difference. A difference of only two degrees year-round in American homes, says University of Tennessee Physicist John R. Gibbons, could be the equivalent of saving 100 million tons of coal per year. Perpetually burning pilot lights on gas stoves are another wasteful luxury that can be eliminated. Moreover, home electric bills could be cut if consumers would...