Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying side by side face down at the base of a Douglas fir tree. The two were a teen-age couple who had been missing for seven weeks...
...many pockets of the West, the hard hat is edging out the Stetson. From their skyscrapers along Denver's 17th Street, energy company executives are organizing new drillings for oil and gas all along the Overthrust Belt, a wide twist of rocky ground that stretches 2,300 miles from northwestern Montana through southern Arizona. The Overthrust Belt was formed eons ago, when two tectonic plates of the earth's crust heaved and crunched together, crinkling one plate over the other. Geologists have known for decades that the region hid pools of oil and gas some...
...suggested placing two giant arrays of solar cells, each about half the size of Manhattan, 22,300 miles above the earth in geosynchronous orbit; there the structures' orbital speed would match the planet's rotation, thus holding the solar powerhouses over the same spot on the ground. Bathed in almost perpetual sunshine, the cells, like those already used to power weather and communications satellites, would convert the sun's energy into electricity, which would then be beamed to earth as microwaves...
Even at night or on cloudy days on earth, when ground-based solar collectors shut down, these microwaves would come flooding down from space. In the scheme studied by the Energy Department, these beams would be focused on six-mile by nine-mile oval-shaped receiving antennas called rectennas. The rectennas would turn the microwaves back into electricity and funnel it into utility power grids. By Glaser's calculation, one satellite could supply as much electricity as five nuclear plants. The Energy Department envisioned 60 such arrays, built over 30 years, to supply 300 million kW., which is about...
Campanati also finds time to draw blueprints for the ecumenical reform of the church and deliver lectures in basic apologetics to the wayward Toomey. Ideas about good and evil, the spirit and the flesh, are regularly set forth. But Earthly Powers is no Magic Mountain. Having to cover much ground quickly, Burgess shaves his peaks...