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...tapped from tall towers anywhere. The big problem, again, is how to store the energy from this variable source. Other proven possibilities include harnessing the oceans' tides (a limited possibility at best), burning garbage as a low-grade fuel and, strangest of all, combining animal manure and carbon monoxide under heat and pressure to produce oil. Government researchers reckon that they can get three barrels of oil from every ton of manure, but the costs of collecting the stuff and hauling it to a plant may prove prohibitive...
Stiff federal controls on carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, scheduled to take hold on 1975 model cars, have been a migraine for the automakers. But for Milton Rosenthal, a lawyer who is chief executive of Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp., Washington's demand for cleaner air could produce a bonanza. Engelhard makes a catalytic converter-a steel cylinder containing a platinum-treated honeycomb structure-that changes some toxic gases into harmless substances. The converter, which costs less than $50, shows strong evidence of enabling the automakers to meet the Environmental Protection Agency standards...
...When the Environmental Protection Agency announced tough new anti-pollution rules for autos last year, Detroit was aghast. "Arbitrary," said General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg. Henry Ford II declared that his company could not meet the standards-a 90% reduction in hydrocarbon and carbon-monoxide emissions by 1975-and that the timetable would require "suspension of most U.S. automotive operations...
...more and more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...
...closest approach, while the southern polar area, tilted away, freezes and traps the moisture. What interests Smith, however, is the orientation of the poles in between those extremes. Then, both polar regions receive equal heating from the sun. The warmer outer portions of the caps release most of their carbon dioxide and any water into the atmosphere...