Crossword-Solution: POWERPLANTS 11 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Within the next 10 years, my program envisions: 200 major nuclear powerplants; 250 major new coal mines; 150 major coal-fired powerplants; 30 major new refineries; 20 major new synthetic fuel plants; the drilling of many thousands of new oil wells; the insulation of 18 million homes; and the manufacturing and the sale of millions of new automobiles, trucks, and buses that use much less fuel.

Installed capacity in 1969 was reported to be 210,000 kilowatts, of which 128,000 kilowatts were in thermal powerplants and 82,000 kilowatts in hydroelectric power stations.

The question of the cost of the Wrights' powerplants is most intriguing, as is that of their entire accomplishment.

Whether or not it had any influence, the vertical cylinder arrangement was becoming predominant in automobile powerplants by this time, and the Wright engines now began to resemble this prevailing form of the internal combustion engine--a basic form that, in a wide variety of uses, was to endure for a long time.

And the overall record of their powerplants shows them to have been remarkably reliable in view of the state of the internal combustion engine at that time.