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Title: Fifty years in synthetic fuels information: Have we lost a strategic national resource

Abstract

The recent 50-year history of the synthetic fuels industry is a long saga of fluctuating national interest, funding, and precipitous world events. The goal of a unified information set has been seriously compromised by war and shortages, prosperity and apathy, economic conflict and OPEC, and a return to abundant supply. On the horizon looms the dismal prospect of a real and permanent energy shortage, a prospect that easily justifies the need for keeping important technical information for the future. This paper tells the tale of the research literature from the German experience during World War II through the disbanding of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6234798
Report Number(s):
CONF-871089-1
ON: DE87010902
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Society for Information Science's annual meeting, Boston, MA, USA, 4 Oct 1987
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; SYNTHETIC FUELS; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY SUPPLIES; REVIEWS; CONVERSION; DOCUMENT TYPES; FUELS; 299003* - Energy Planning & Policy- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation- Other- (-1989); 293000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation

Citation Formats

Roseberry, L M. Fifty years in synthetic fuels information: Have we lost a strategic national resource. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Roseberry, L M. Fifty years in synthetic fuels information: Have we lost a strategic national resource. United States.
Roseberry, L M. 1987. "Fifty years in synthetic fuels information: Have we lost a strategic national resource". United States.
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abstractNote = {The recent 50-year history of the synthetic fuels industry is a long saga of fluctuating national interest, funding, and precipitous world events. The goal of a unified information set has been seriously compromised by war and shortages, prosperity and apathy, economic conflict and OPEC, and a return to abundant supply. On the horizon looms the dismal prospect of a real and permanent energy shortage, a prospect that easily justifies the need for keeping important technical information for the future. This paper tells the tale of the research literature from the German experience during World War II through the disbanding of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.},
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year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
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