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...Walnut Creek, Calif...
Last month, before Chrysler struck its self-sacrificing pose, its lobbyist Tommy Boggs sat for a photographer at his sprawling desk. Boggs asked him not to take any pictures of his walnut bar stocked with the best scotch and whiskey, gin and vodka...
...Geraldine O. Powell Walnut Creek, Calif...
Biomass. One new slogan: If it grows, burn it-or convert it to energy. Homeowners, utilities, manufacturers and municipal governments are experimentally burning all forms of natural growth, or biomass, including urban garbage, sugar cane, walnut shells and plants. At the same time, government-funded projects are examining means to extract energy from common biological wastes like animal manures. A poultry farmers' cooperative in Arkansas will soon recycle 100 tons of chicken manure daily to produce 1.2 million cu. ft. of methane equal to 12,000 gal. of gasoline; it is then used to power automobiles that have engines...
Some San Joaquin farmers have coped by switching to corn, barley and other salt-tolerant crops, but this is a stopgap measure. Explains William Cerutti, 58, who tried growing walnut trees on his 700 acres: "The roots got down and they started getting to the salt. The tips start drying up, and within two or three years the trees keel over, completely dead...