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...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 of different forecasting...
...during this academic year will be subtle ones. "The only visible thing we may well do is put vestibules at the four entrances to the building," eliminating the need to heat or to cool the doorways, he says. Other possible renovations--insulating the walls or coating the building with thermal paint, for example--"you'll never notice," Leahy adds...
...economic crisis from sliding into debacle. Moscow, which has 8,000 advisers scattered through the country, is currently pouring $2.5 million a day into military and civilian aid projects, including a $1.8 billion hydroelectric and irrigation complex in Ha Son Binh (formerly Hoa Binh) province, a thermal power station, and completion of the Thang Long Bridge outside Hanoi, left unfinished by the Chinese withdrawal...
Christopher Reeve, movie star (Superman, Superman II), after his glider ran out of thermal currents over England and was forced to land at a restricted RAF base: "What a thing to happen to Superman...
...history of television weathercasting does not exactly en courage reverence. In the beginning, stations just had a staff announcer rip the forecast off the A. P. ticker. Stations with commercial foresight, however, brought in scientists or pseudo scientists to discourse on occluded fronts and thermal inversions. The weather package was born: a short noncontroversial segment of the local news, with almost universal audience interest. In the mid-and late '50s came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy...