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...receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures left. In a yeasty anecdotal vein, Remington tells tales of canoeing shallow rivers and being spilled into the foaming rapids...
...Kemeny commission that investigated Three Mile Island for President Carter put only small blame on the operators in the control room on the day of the near disaster. Instead, the commission took aim at what it called the "shallow," "deficient" and "inadequate" operator training system created by industry and Government. In the year since the accident, industry executives and Government regulators have made a number of changes. Says Loring Mills, a spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations: "Before T.M.I., the industry was training people to run plants as if they always ran correctly. Now we throw trainees situations...
...Professor Philip Kurland, a longtime court watcher: "We're just told by the authors that we've got to believe it. It's all Deep Throat-at best, hearsay twice removed." Says Critic Renata Adler, a Yale Law School graduate: "It's the most shallow and inaccurate piece of journalism I've ever seen in book form...
What was remarkable about the event -and what confounded the skeptics -was the fact that the electricity for the lights was generated not by a conventional or nuclear power plant, but by a shallow, briny pool of water-a solar pond. Easy to create, using existing technology, and apparently harmless to the environment, these ponds may be one of the brightest ideas yet for tapping the sun's radiation as an energy source...
Unlike some other solar energy schemes, the ponds can operate year round, on cloudy days as well as sunny ones, even at night. They are also cheap, consisting essentially of a sheltered, shallow body of salt water that acts as a solar collector, plus a heat-exchanging system and turbogenerator. The pond's operating principle is simple. When sunlight strikes a fresh-water pond, it heats the water and stirs up convection currents; cooler water sinks to the bottom while warmer water rises to the surface, where its heat quickly escapes into the atmosphere. In a solar pond, these...