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...conserve took hold. At one point, President Carter declared conservation "the moral equivalent of war." Consumers turned off unnecessary lights, rode bicycles, dialed thermostats down to 65 degrees F and drove 55 m.p.h. instead of 70 m.p.h. Meanwhile, rising prices made it economical for utility companies to convert to coal-fired and nuclear-powered plants and for other businesses to install new energy-efficient equipment. Some homeowners even began heating their houses and pools with solar panels. Result: the U.S. reduced its reliance on oil imports from 8.6 million bbl. per day in 1977 to 4.3 million bbl. last year...
What else can America do to prevent another oil shock? The question has taken on renewed urgency in Washington. Among other proposals, the Administration wants to streamline the process for licensing nuclear-power utilities and plans to seek more money to support research into clean-burning coal plants. But the most talked-about concept in Congress is a tax on imported oil, which would pay the twin dividends of reducing the budget deficit and helping to prop up domestic suppliers by increasing the price. Says Heller: "The gains we make from the drop in oil prices ought to give...
...Secretary, and William Davis, former Ontario premier. Their investigation diplomatically divided responsibility for the problem between the two nations, but recommended that the U.S. take bigger steps toward a cleanup: a $5 billion, five-year effort, with costs split by the Government and business, to develop technology for burning coal more cleanly. The huge quantity of coal burned by the industrial and electrical plants of the Ohio Valley is a major source of airborne sulfur oxides that return to earth as acid compounds...
Indeed, some of the delegates wasted no time getting into the spirit of things. Konstantin Petrov, from the Voroshilovgrad region, demanded, "Why not make a movie that will teach children about coal mining? I can remember only one good book about coal miners, and that was written 30 years ago." Delegates were not surprised to learn that Petrov was a retired miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with...
...particular about Shuttle Mission 51-C in January 1985, in which the seal temperature had been 53 degrees (although the air had warmed to 66 degrees by the time of launch). When the spent boosters were recovered from that flight, what Boisjoly described as black soot "just like coal" was found behind a primary ring in one booster, indicating that gases had blown past the first ring. Although erosion had also been found after flights in warmer temperatures, 51-C had been exposed to overnight lows in the 20s and had more extensive ring damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures...