Word: scheme
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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...
...optimism radiated by Glaser and the Sunsat Energy Council, a coalition of individuals and corporations lobbying for his scheme, no one could deny SPS's enormous complexities...
Inverting the scheme of the traditional morality play, Brecht has his characters--a pair of sisters trying to earn money for their family home--avoid the traditional deadly sins so they can practice far worse ones more efficiently. One sister (both are named Anna) serves as guardian spirit to her suffering sibling: as they travel from city to city, climbing a ladder of fortune, the worldly temptations of Anna 2 are warded off one by her moralizing sister...
More than a century ago, visionaries like Jules Verne were suggesting a better way. A bullet-shaped vehicle, they claimed, could be propelled far faster by using powerful electromagnetic fields. Now, as a result of lab work in the U.S. and abroad, the Vernean scheme shows promise of becoming a practical reality with far-reaching consequences: armor-piercing guns that can puncture the toughest steels, and perhaps a whole new era of space launchers...
While Veneto magistrates delved into it over the years, the scheme was chronicled in some 200 articles that appeared in a small daily, La Tribuna, in the city of Treviso. One disgusted oilman in Rome also claims that "everyone in the industry knew for years." But no national disclosures were made until Giorgio Pisano, a senator in the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) recently reeled off a series of charges on the senate floor...