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When the residents of Montebello Poniente (pop 8,000) a suburb of San Salvador on the slopes of one of El Salvador s largest volcanoes, heard the rumblings shortly after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave...
...sudden wave was the result of two currents of floodwater joining forces on the side of the volcano just above the town, followed minutes later by the collapse of a temporary road-construction dam. The disaster, El Salvador's worst since a 1965 earthquake, followed four days of heavy rains that have devastated El Salvador and parts of Guatemala killing some 1,000 people. As much as 40% of El Salvador's basic food crops has been destroyed, and damage is estimated at $250 million...
...Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that is used to shoot dog food into cans (it could be nicknamed the Alpo Volcano). The Land (sponsor: Kraft) manages to meld...
...Geothermal power is readily available on Hawaii, the youngest and most volcanically active of the islands. In 1976 drillers dug the world's hottest hole, with bottom temperatures of 676° F, on the eastern slopes of Kilauea volcano. Last year the well came on line with a $14 million, 3-megawatt* power plant, only the second such geothermal facility in the U.S. Estimates of the island's geothermal potential range up to 3,000 megawatts, nearly twice the whole state's present electric-power consumption. The further development of new geothermal sources would be spurred...
...photovoltaic system that nils 4% of its electrical and 40% of its hot-water needs. But such systems are expensive and generate electricity only in daylight hours. Even the sun has not cooperated this year: thanks partly to dust clouds from Mexico's El Chichón volcano, Hawaii has had the lowest level of direct solar radiation in 52 years...