Word: tower
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...castles, palaces or monasteries; all have good restaurants serving the specialties of the region and require advance registration. At Alarcon, for example, on the road to Valencia from Madrid, the Parador Marqués de Villena is a 10th century turreted castle, where a lucky visitor may rent a tower bedroom for $22 a night...
...Angeles department of water and power plans to build a 200-kw photovoltaic system that may provide the energy to run a power plant's cooling tower in suburban Sun Valley, Calif. If this project gets federal funding and goes through, it would be eight times larger than the biggest existing photovoltaic system. Up to now, such systems have generally been confined to remote and inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even...
Then the Prudential tower appears in the distance, and the shouting reaches a crescendo. For one instant you feel as though you could be winning...
While reporters from Oregon, Arizona, and California sit comfortably in the Prudential Tower press offices, writers from the Marathon's own backyard will be excluded. The students of Boston treat the Marathon with great respect, and we deserve more than the back of the BAA's hand in return...
Trying to sell electricity to a power company may seem like a quixotic gesture, but for 18 months a modern-day Man of La Mancha, Martin Greenwald of Thompson Ridge, N.Y., has been doing his best. His $4,000 windmill stands on a 44-ft. tower behind the barn on his small farm and generates only 2 kw of power. But when the wind is right (about 15 m.p.h.), he has electricity to spare. So in 1977, Greenwald, 36, an assistant professor of industrial technology at Montclair State College, offered to sell his excess power to Orange and Rockland Utilities...