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...reach 105[degrees]F in summer, but inside the house Murcutt designed in the Adelaide Hills for his brother, it's more like 75[degrees]F. In winter, when it is 32[degrees]F outside, the house is 62[degrees]F. The energy savings from not using electricity to heat or cool the house are considerable...
...promise is tantalizing. Windmills generate renewable power, so called because the source of the energy, wind, is continually renewed by nature (ditto for solar cells, which are powered by the sun; geothermal systems, which use the earth's heat; and hydroelectricity, which flows from dams). Unlike oil and coal deposits, renewable energy can't be exhausted, at least not until the sun burns out billions of years from now and earth goes cold...
...reserves of coal, but it seems unthinkable that we will continue to use them as we do now, for nearly 80% of our energy. It's not just a question of supply and price, or even of the diseases caused by filthy air. We know that global warming from heat-trapping carbon dioxide, a by-product of fossil-fuel burning, threatens to cause chaos with the world's climate. And the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center raises other scary scenarios: how much easier would it be to crack open the Trans-Alaska pipeline and how much deadlier would...
...world's leading manufacturer of photovoltaics. India established a fund that has lent $1.1 billion to alternative-energy projects; the country is now the globe's fifth largest generator of wind and solar power. Iceland, which lies on a hotbed of underground volcanic activity, uses that geothermal energy to heat 90% of its buildings. The island nation is planning to use geothermal and hydroelectric power to produce large amounts of hydrogen, creating the world's first hydrogen economy...
...favorites is jianbing, or fried pancake. Crepe batter and an egg are expertly fried on a cast-iron hot plate. Then the pancake is sprinkled with a variety of pickled vegetables, slivered seaweed, hot sauce, hoisin sauce and sesame seeds. Finally, working with callused heat-resistant fingers, the chef wraps the whole steaming concoction around a crispy strip of fried dough. It's heavenly...