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...said that soaring oil prices will have a disastrous effect on developing economies, and that alternate energy sources, such as solar energy, will have to be improved and brought into mass...
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will soon give this process its first test. If it works, says Robert Rex, president of Republic Geothermal Inc., "the energy could provide all the additional power the nation will require until thermonuclear fusion and solar sources are developed." But until the "dry rock" technique is shown to be feasible, geothermal power seems bound to remain only a marginal, supplemental answer to U.S. energy problems...
Possible alternatives to the present oil crisis lie in learning to harness other fossil fuels like coal or such non-fossil fuels as fission, fusion, hydrogen, or solar energy, Meyer said. He added that it is in these directions of research and study that the United States should be moving with a concentrated effort...
...cost $2.6 billion and tapped the best of American technology; yet Skylab sometimes behaved like a castoff from a used-car lot. First it lost vital shielding and an electricity-generating solar wing. Then its steering rockets per formed so badly that NASA thought of sending up rescuers to evacuate its three-man crew. Finally, two of its stabilizing gyros faltered, threatening to send the 100-ton space station yawing and pitching like an angry whale...
Scientists will be kept busy for years studying the accumulated findings - to say nothing of the dramatic observations already reported from space. Astronaut Gibson, a solar physicist by training, managed to photograph for the first time the very beginnings of a solar flare - a sudden, violent release of enormous energy from the sun's interior. Looking earthward, the astronauts observed strange, swirling eddies in warm ocean currents that are apparently involved in the exchange of heat between water and atmosphere, an important factor in global weather and climate...