Sentences with phrase «1970s energy crisis»

The business plan: Assassinate a scientist and steal his «solex agitator,» a solar - power component thought to ameliorate the 1970s energy crisis.

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Rewind to the energy crisis in the 1970s and a decision by OPEC to keep pumping oil would have been cheered by investors not to mention motorists and the rest of the economy.

Looking back at Brevard Childs's 1970 essay on biblical theology (Biblical Theology in Crisis), one finds it hard to comprehend how powerful the Biblical Theology Movement was in the 1940s and»50s — and how one could have spoken of a crisis of truly momentous importance, one that concentrated so much energy and debate.

The professor began studying environmental behavior in the 1980s, when the 1970s» energy crisis loomed large in the public memory.

Harvesting the sun's energy as heat is hardly a new idea: During the energy crisis of the 1970s, designs for solar thermal power plants took off.

Consequently, much of our technology dates back to the 1970s, when the oil crisis spurred an interest in geothermal energy.

Rosenthal credits a scientific article published during America's first energy crisis in the 1970s for piquing his interest in bismuth.

Discussions about indoor air quality emerged in the 1970s as a result of the energy crisis leading to home construction that was more efficient by way of being sealed up tight... and subsequently lacking ventilation.

A number of rural school districts adopted the four - day week as a fuel conservation measure during the energy crisis of the mid to late 1970s.

Station wagons, at least as a vehicle category, died in the energy crises of the 1970s and never rose again.

First adopted in the 1930s, when the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, the four - day school week saw a resurgence during the energy crisis of the 1970s.

The Energy Department's budget jumped in the 1970s as a result of the surge in oil production during the energy crisis and in the 1980s, during the «farm crisis,» the Agriculture Department saw a similar budgetEnergy Department's budget jumped in the 1970s as a result of the surge in oil production during the energy crisis and in the 1980s, during the «farm crisis,» the Agriculture Department saw a similar budgetenergy crisis and in the 1980s, during the «farm crisis,» the Agriculture Department saw a similar budget hike.

Then during the energy crisis of the 1970's, special legislation implemented Daylight Savings continuously in the US for most of two full years, beginning January 6, 1974.

The Eastern Gas Shales Project, a series of public - private shale drilling demonstration projects in the early 1970s in response to the energy crisis;

Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.

You pointed out that the amount of federal research funding for energy hasn't changed much since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

The answer is that although the DOE was set up in the 1970s to respond to the energy crisis, it never received any real funding to look into renewables (not even when the Democrats owned the Congress and Carter was President), and it was quickly converted into the center of the U.S. military / civilian nuclear program.

That paper was a central source for my 2006 article describing the country's longstanding, and bipartisan, abandonment of energy research and development after the last pulse of the oil crisis of the 1970s.

But the U.S. is in political crisis over what to do about energy and climate, and has been since the early 1970s.

The USA invested vast sums into coal bed methane in the energy crisis in the 1970's.

The energy crises of the 1970s, however, gave way to an oil glut in the 1980s, and Block Island's dependence on diesel continued.

This was evident during the energy crisis of the 1970's and early 1980's.

Providing programs to electric utility customers to reduce their energy use through improved energy efficiency is an innovation with roots in the energy crises of the 1970s.

Energy security (refers to the long term; it is especially relevant for extended periods of economic and trade disputes or military disruptions that could threaten energy supply, e.g. 1970's oil crises [1], world wars, Russia cuts» off gas supplies to EuEnergy security (refers to the long term; it is especially relevant for extended periods of economic and trade disputes or military disruptions that could threaten energy supply, e.g. 1970's oil crises [1], world wars, Russia cuts» off gas supplies to Euenergy supply, e.g. 1970's oil crises [1], world wars, Russia cuts» off gas supplies to Europe).

Today's enthusiasm for green architecture has its origins in the energy crisis of the 1970s, when architects began to question the wisdom of building enclosed glass - and - steel boxes that required massive heating and cooling systems.

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

This would be worse than the «oil crisis» of the 1970s because the reduction would be greater, would be permanent, and energy use has increased since then.

It was included as a potentially important factor in the large energy system study «Energy in the Finite World» that got it's motivation from the oil crises of energy system study «Energy in the Finite World» that got it's motivation from the oil crises of Energy in the Finite World» that got it's motivation from the oil crises of 1970s.

Founded back in the 1970s in response to the oil crisis, its website says it currently «works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 28 member countries.»

After the 1970s - era oil crises, Japan established the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a semi-governmental organization to research new energy technolEnergy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a semi-governmental organization to research new energy technolenergy technologies.

Japan pioneered wave energy in the 1970 / 80s, with a floating «Mighty Whale» Oscillating Water Column system and some harbour wall / breakwater OWCs, but did not follow it up, in part due to its economic crisis.

Although the 1970s «back - to - the - land» movement (which coincided with historic energy crises) largely fizzled, perhaps due to cheap oil flowing from the North Sea and Alaska during the 1980s and 1990s, we may be on the cusp of similar, more widespread, and possibly more desperate trends today.

No one is actually «in control» to move any of the levers that are well and truly welded in place since the 1970s when the world changed by ignoring the «energy crisis» knocking on their doors then.

In the early 1970s the rise of environmentalism, a series of weather disasters, and the energy crisis had put greenhouse warming on the public agenda.

This struck me as as odd bit of revisionist history, given both the «energy crisis» rhetoric of the 1970s and Dr. Holdren's own bet that resources would become more scarce.

and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1997 - 2000, in his written testimony referenced his experience analyzing the energy crisis of the 1970s for the Pentagon, remarking that despite repeated commitments to «energy independence» by politicians of both parties, the issues remain much the same today.

Supporters call the existing standards — known as the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards and created in the 1970s during the energy crisis — one of the great environmental success stories, saving the country billions of barrels of oil that would otherwise have been burned in the 30 years since enactment of the law.