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GEOTHERMAL POWER. Though underground reservoirs of steam and water have long been tapped in Iceland, New Zealand, Italy and Japan, the only large geothermal enterprise in the U.S. is a steam field known as the Geysers in California's Sonoma County. There, steam from deep in the earth drives turbogenerators that produce some 302,000 kw. of electricity, roughly 40% of San Francisco's total requirements...
...water. One proposal, under test by the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, involves sinking two side-by-side holes deep into the earth until they reach hot basement rock (approximately 1,000° F.). Then by pumping cold water into one hole, the scientists hope to extract steam from the other. Project Director Morton Smith reports that test borings to a depth of only 2,500 ft. (v. the final goal of 7,500 ft.) already have produced significant heating. Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing a similar experiment in Montana...
...technique, proposed by Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a man-and-wife team of scientists at the University of Arizona, involves spreading a "solar farm," consisting of piping containing a mixture of chemicals, over 25 sq. mi. of desert. Heated by the sun, the mix would be used to make steam, which would power turbines capable of producing some 1,000 megawatts of electricity...
Smithsonian Curator Peter Marzio has arrayed a compact but thorough review of 284 years of American journalism. The growth of newspapers, from gossipy 17th century village broadsides written by hand to today's metropolitan dailies is reflected by changing technology: the telegraph, steam engine (which transformed hand-operated printing presses), wireless, camera, typewriter...
...remaining flotsom was awarded many different prizes for behavior and looks. The Most Ostentatious award went to Eliot House's The Henry Elkins, designed as an oar-powered Mississippi steam boat. The Most Obscene and Most Polluted Crew awards went to the boat from Adams with a large banana on the sail and a bellicose crew that threw the peels at the other boats...