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Further Research. For the time being, at least, ERDA is not advocating a federally financed Manhattan Project for the development of any single new source of energy such as solar power-a decision that will draw fire from environmentalists. Although ERDA expects to spend about $1.5 billion over the coming year on further research into such promising power sources as coal gasification and geothermal and solar generating plants, the agency is opposed to an all-out federal development effort that is focused on one or two energy alternatives. Instead, ERDA is persuaded that Washington can encourage a broader and more...
Later on in the century, as oil and natural gas reserves begin to run down, ERDA foresees a shift to two "essentially inexhaustible" sources of power: solar energy and nuclear power. While some other alternatives, notably geothermal power, will have a role to play, ERDA has decided that the sun and the atom are "the major candidates for meeting energy needs of the future." If the approach ERDA espouses is successful, the agency forecasts that by the year 2000 the U.S. will have 450 nuclear generating plants (current total: 55) and anywhere from 200 to 400 plants that convert solar...
...Prager, the event itself at the white and green canal authority building alongside the harbor was refreshingly short. There, 600 invited dignitaries, including Crown Prince Reza of Iran, 14, foreign ambassadors, and defense ministers and army generals of other Arab nations, occupied a ceremonial platform shaped like a pharaonic solar ship...
...space manufacturing -for example, the construction of large turbogenerators driven by sunlight. Much easier to build in the gravity-free environment around the colonies, these giant machines could be towed back to the vicinity of the earth, parked in fixed orbit and then used to relay the captured solar power down to earth as a beam of microwaves...
...trivial that if left behind at O'Hare Airport, one would be less disturbed than if one had misplaced a book of matches. The author's fancy here is that an eccentric inventor, working in secrecy at St.-Tropez, is on the point of perfecting a solar-powered car. The Arabs are out to stop him before he sells his process to General Motors, thus weaning the West away from its petroleum habit. When all seems lost, one of the bad Arabs reveals himself to be a good Arab, determined to make peace with Israel and save...