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Alternative long-range energy strategies. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, December 9, 1976

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OSTI ID:5231710
The hearing was conducted to hear views and differences on energy strategies, Senator Gaylord Nelson, presiding. Future energy strategies will affect employment, lifestyles, wealth, equity, war, and peace. Many excerpts are published as exhibits at this hearing. The first group of exhibits includes papers on nuclear issues followed by an excerpt from '' A Preliminary Social and Environmental Assessment of the ERDA Solar Energy Program, 1975 to 2020.'' Some tables and graphs depict energy consumption and energy source data. Dr. E. Linn Draper, Jr., and Amory B. Lovins provide some comments and answers to questions in Appendixes I and II. Appendix III is an extensive critique on ''Energy Strategies: The Road Not Taken.'' (EAPA, 3: 00566) and other writings by Amory B. Lovins. Appendix IV includes selected additional correspondence and materials on long-range energy strategy. Some important papers on solar energy are cited including an extensive bibliography by Frances A. Gulick entitled, Energy Conservation, Alternate Technologies and Employment--Selected References-A Preliminary List,'' December 8, 1976. (MCW)
OSTI ID:
5231710
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English