Special Urban Air Pollution Problems, Denver and Houston: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, November 19, 21, 1977 |
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Page 9 - I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — ROBERT FROST, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN...
Page 328 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 189 - Fluidized beds have long been used as chemical reactors and for burning trash, but are now ready to be commercially applied to raising steam and operating turbines. In one system currently available from Stal-Laval Turbin AB of Sweden, eight off-the-shelf...
Page 224 - Enter into agreements, (which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary) with a housing...
Page 190 - Transitional technologies can be built at appropriate scale so that soft technologies can be plugged into the system later. For example, if district heating uses hot water tanks on a neighborhood scale, those tanks can in the long run be heated by neighborhood solar collectors, wind-driven heat pumps, a factory, a pyrolyzer, a geothermal well, or whatever else becomes locally available— offering flexibility that is not possible at today's excessive scale. Both transitional and soft technologies...
Page 225 - ... bill shall be passed giving any extra compensation to any public officer, servant, employe, agent or contractor, after services shall have been rendered or contract made, nor providing for the payment of any claim against the Commonwealth without previous authority of law: Provided, however, That nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit the General Assembly from authorizing the increase of retirement allowances or pensions of members of a retirement or pension system now in...
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Page 409 - The character and degree of injury to, or interference with, the health and physical property of the people...
Page 611 - ... is about 1.4 persons per car. Since most cars are capable of carrying at least four persons, there is considerable room for reducing automobile use and emissions through carpooling. The principal obstacle to carpooling is that carpools are highly restrictive in terms of the service offered. Carpoolers must have trip origins and destinations that are close to one another, must desire to travel at the same times of day, and, to minimize the problems of locating carpool partners, must make trips...
Page 189 - Perhaps the most exciting current development is the so-called fluidized-bed system for burning coal (or virtually any other combustible material). Fluidized beds are simple, versatile devices that add the fuel a little at a time to a much larger mass of small, inert, redhot particles — sand or ceramic pellets — kept suspended as an agitated fluid by a stream of air continuously blown up through it from below. The efficiency of combustion, of other chemical reactions (such as sulfur removal),...