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Speech class al fresco
staff photo by Jane Hollingsworth
Students in Dr. Heiling’s speech communications having class outdoors near the Memorial Student
class enjoy the early morning weather Tuesday by Center. *
Wildlife said faring ‘too well’
Kenya hunting ban hit
United Press International
NEW YORK — The prefer
red automobile engine of the
1990s may be made largely of
ceramics instead of steel, says
John Lanning, a specialist for
Corning Glass Works of Corn
ing, N.Y.
The engines will be either gas
turbines or adiabatic tur
bocharged diesels. Adiabatic
means operating at even tem
perature. They will run at ex
tremely high temperatures and
will use at least 25 percent less
fuel than today’s diesels and a lot
less than gasoline engines. They
will need minimal, or even no
cooling.
They will cost more than to
day’s engines but will last a lot
longer and the gas turbines will
have multifuel capability, burn
ing anything from powdered
coal to methanol alcohol, or
kerosene. Both types of engine
could burn hydrogen.
Lanning said Corning
already is making prototype
ceramic parts out of Zirconia or
alumina nitride for such ex
perimental engines. Many of
these have been tested on the
road and in off-highway and sta
tionary applications. But for
ordinary automotive and
marine use, they still are years
away because it takes time and
hundreds of millions of dollars
to develop a new breed of en
gine for mass use and prove its
capability by sustained perform
ance tests.
The ceramic components also
are being developed by GTESy-
Ivania, Carborundum and Nor
ton in the United States and by
many European and Japanese
companies.
Their purpose is to withstand
high temperatures and corro
sion. Heavy castings and forg
ings such as blocks and crank
shafts would continue to be of
metal but the cylinder liners, pis
ton heads, manifolds and tur
bocharger parts on the diesel
and many internal parts of the
turbines would be ceramic.
The high-
temperature engines burn the
fuel more completely and thus
greatly reduce narmful exhaust
emissions.
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United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — Since
Kenya banned game hunting
five years ago the animals have
been doing very well — too well.
The expanding wildlife
population now rivals drought
as the main cause of crop and
livestock destruction.
Elephants, buffaloes, lions,
leopards, monkeys, hyenas, wild
pigs and even porcupines tram
ple freely through the bush
from Marsabit to Mombasa eat
ing or crushing crops and lives
tock valued at more than $7 mil
lion per year.
Now ecologists, conservation
ists, politicians, farmers and
newspapers who once cam
paigned to save the wildlife are
clamoring for at least a limited
and controlled lifting of the
hunting ban introduced in 1977.
“Wildlife numbers have built
up to such numbers that the im
pact on crops and agriculture is
enormous,” said Dr. David
Western, a member of the New
York Zoological Society and a
Kenya government wildlife trus
tee who spends most of his time
in the field.
“Kenya cannot afford the
tremendous losses in the arid
agricultural areas it is now ex
periencing. The crops have to be
protected,” Western said.
Almost any other form of
protection besides limited hunt
ing would prove as costly as the
value of the crops destroyed, “a
zero solution,” said Western.
Wildlife growth since the
1977 ban is impressive. Zebra
and wildebeest population in
creased by more than 50 per
cent. Between 1979 and 1981
the buffalo population doubled
to almost 250,000.
At the Ziwani sisal estate near
Mt. Kilimanjaro, a herd of
elephants and baboons ate their
way through 1,500 of the estate’s
35,000 acres in two days. Game
rangers came —- and watched.
“They shot off some blanks to
scare the elephants. How can
they expect to scare off hun
dreds of elephants with blanks?”
asked estate manager Harry
Shamash. The cost — $500,000
in lost crops.
At the near-by village of Mbo-
lo, farmers sleep in shifts to pro
tect their small corn crops from
elephants. Their only means of
protection is to beat tribal drums
to frighten the animals.
“If a herd of elephants walked
into the center of Nairobi and
started demolishing shops, they
would be shot on the spot and
owners would be handsomely
compensated,” one politician
said.
A government compensation
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scheme is supposed to reim
burse farmers for lost property,
but it has proved inadequate,
slow and plagued by fraud, cor
ruption and bureaucratic tang
les. Farmers claim payment is
far below true value and often
takes two years or more to reach
them.
In 1979 farmers claimed $6
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More than crops are des
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believed to be killed by wild
animals every year.
Under Kenya game laws,
even killing a protected animal
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