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...more overtly political discussion. On the wall are a few brightly-covered anti-nuclear posters, which drew forth in response an article from a local newspaper on a group of women engineers who are pro-nuke and think many of the anti-nuke arguments are just a form of solar energy that is to say, hot air. In counter-response someone has circled a paragraph in the article that says how, despite the fact that these women were hired by public utilities financially wedded to the nuclear industry, their views should be taken seriously...
Some of us mossbacks are bored with the burbling about our solar future. We aren't going to get there without electricity for mining, processing and manufacturing the material for solar equipment. And we aren't going to have enough electricity without nuclear power. And we aren't going to have nuclear power if we persist in unrealistic expectations from conservation and solar power...
...shallow as your article portrays Los Alamos [Dec. 10]. As Governor of the great state of New Mexico, I am proud of the citizens we have, including the people who are employed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories. Los Alamos scientists have been instrumental in the development of medical, nuclear, solar, laser and computer applications that have played a key role in our nation's technical achievements. The author's analysis of Los Alamos ignores the positive aspects of many fine individuals who make up this outstanding community...
...forfeited the trust of the Third World in America's reliability as a fuel supplier. Now the U.S. will have to change tactics. As a first step, the U.S. should seek to create an international agency, perhaps under the auspices of the United Nations, to develop solar and other energy technologies appropriate for the special conditions of resource poor, less developed countries. In many of these nations, sunlight is the most abundant natural resource. While a bank of photo-electric power cells might be inappropriate for capital-poor developing countries, solar water heaters and buildings designed to take advantage...
...pressure on petroleum prices in world-markets, which in turn compels developing countries to chose nuclear power. Ideally such an American program should include the decontrol of oil and gas prices (accompanied by tax relief for the hardest-hit consumers), the development of mass transit, and the adoption of solar power and conservation measures, which a group at the Business School recently said could cut the nation's energy consumption by 30 to 40 per cent...