Energy in an age of limited availability and delimited applicability

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:6014029

Sporn, P

The primary theses of this lecture by American Electric Power Systems's retired president P. Sporn maintain that (1) the US refuses to recognize and take measures against an unprecedented energy crisis that threatens the national safety, economy, and way of living, (2) the plans of the Federal Energy Administration for voluntary conservation in the use of oil have proven ineffectual, and (3) the crisis is the result not of an overnight action on the part of OPEC, but of a long chain of misguided policies leading to the wasteful use of oil and gas and reliance on cheap foreign oil. The resolution of this crisis must consider that with the creation of many underdeveloped nations, a new international economic order is being established that will be orientated not to consumption and markets, but rather to resources and environmental concerns, meaning lesser availability of energy at higher costs and under greater control. The cornerstone of the US Project Independence should be an energy growth policy of 3%/yr for the rest of this century with an electric energy component growth of 5.6%, biased in a way that will allow electric energy to reach 50% of total energy by 2000. A 100,000-MW program of electric power generation consisting of 63,000 MW of nuclear capacity would cut down US dependence on oil imports by 1 billion bbl/yr.

• OSTI ID: 6014029
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY POLICY
ENERGY SHORTAGES
ENERGY SOURCES
EVALUATION
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
NATURAL GAS
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ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POWER
PROJECT INDEPENDENCE
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