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...even in California the science of photovoltaics is in its infancy, and the cells remain expensive and not very efficient; the 1,500 sq. ft. of units required to power a typical one-family home would cost at least $40,000. Electrical power is measured in the number of watts that can be generated from a single power source. The cost of building and maintaining a plant to generate a single watt is about $1 from a coal-powered utility and about $1.25 from a nuclear power plant. The cost of a watt from photovoltaic cells has come down from...
...system, are proving to be considerable energy savers. To cut heating costs, the ceilings of office buildings are being fitted with special ducts that capture and then recycle the heat thrown off from electric typewriters, copying machines and even office workers (who radiate as much heat as 100-watt light bulbs). Though there are 7% more phone-company cars and trucks (total: 177,000) on the road than in 1973, gasoline consumption has been cut by 3%, in large part simply by teaching employees to use economical driving skills...
...Woodbridge, Va., a hamlet 25 miles south of Washington, D.C., to fill a prescription. The prescription called for 15 tablets of Quaalude, a potent sedative that is sometimes prescribed for insomnia and frequently abused because of its mythical properties as an aphrodisiac. By chance, a state pharmacy inspector, Kathleen Watt, was in the store and decided to verify Long's prescription. When she tried to call the doctor who had written it and found that the doctor's phone had been disconnected. Watt summoned police. The officers learned that the patient's name on the prescription...
...plays as classy a harp as you've ever heard), but "Miss You" is not much like the rest of the album at all. This is not to downgrade "Miss You" beyond reason. It is technically an excellent song led by Bill Wyman's trendy bass work and Charlie Watt's as ever tight drumming. It just doesn't hit the heart the way some of the other stuff does...
...most reasonable source of solar electric power is the photovoltaic cell of the type used in satellites and light meters. The cost of power from these cells is currently high--about $11 per watt, because the volume of business is currently low--750 kilowatts of capacity produced per year. Yet 1977 reports of the United Nations and the Federal Energy Administration show that electric power from photovoltaic cells would be cheaper than that from nuclear plants if they received a total investment of only $1 billion. That is still less than the cost of a single large nuclear power plant...