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...Nebraska, where two-thirds of its waters lie, to a few inches in parts of Texas. Although it was first tapped in the 1930s, it has been extensively exploited only since the development of high-capacity pumps after World War II. The Ogallala's estimated quadrillion gallons of water, the equivalent of Lake Huron, have irrigated farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, changing a region of subsistence farming into a $15 billion-a-year agricultural center...
...input assumptions from the energy forecasts of Data Resources, Inc., Otto Eckstein's Lexington, Mass., econometrics firm. However sophisticated the model or precise its electricity computations, the forecasts will prove no more accurate than the input assumptions someone feeds it. MR&A's forecast last year projected about 104 quadrillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) total energy demand by the end of the century--considerably more than the projected figures of the U.S. Department of Energy. The divergence represents differing perceptions of conservation's impact on future energy use and the U.S. economy's sustained growth rate. The varied assumptions...
Your story "Numbers Game" [March 13] reported my estimate that 50 quadrillion snowflakes fell on Boston in February's great snowfall...
...latter calculated the number of snowflakes that fell on Boston during February's monster storm. He multiplied the average snowfall depth (27 in.) by the area of Boston (43 sq. mi.), then divided the result by the volume of the average snowflake (1/10,000 cu. in.). Answer: 50 quadrillion (5 X 10 16) snowflakes. His prize: a Tessman family portrait-in snow...
...partially, but how to do that remains debatable. President Nixon last spring urged Congress to exempt newly discovered finds of natural gas from FPC regulations. Such decontrol would greatly encourage gas-producing companies to find new deposits-and according to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are potentially some 1.2 quadrillion cu. ft. of reserves in the ground waiting to be tapped. The consumer would not suffer too much immediately, since the cost of new gas would be averaged in with the cost of existing supplies. But in the long run, deregulation would send gas prices skyrocketing. At least partly...