Industrial view of energy planning

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977 · Technol. Rev.; (United States)

OSTI ID:7218974

Vetter, E O

All elements of society in the U.S. bear responsibility for the energy dilemma, the author says. He further adds, ''President Carter should launch a media blitz of the magnitude displayed in connection with the program announced on April 20, to eliminate arbitrary and unbalanced regulatory requirements that constrain energy production and conversion initiatives. It is unfair for one sector of our society to pay unnecessarily high energy prices because another sector unreasonably withholds the opportunity to increase energy supplies.'' An energy plan for the United States must be conceived in terms of two moments in time. One is the year 1985, chosen because until then we are almost locked into present energy sources and, almost to the same extent, damand patterns. The other is the year 2000, when initiatives taken in the next few years might reach full fruition to change our patterns of supply and demand. There are only four strategies that will affect our outlook for 1985 and 2000 in a major way: conservation; optimal development of domestic oil and gas resources; optimum conversion to coal; optimum development of nuclear energy. There are two additional strategies that will play an important role in the year 2000 and beyond: development of such alternate (exotic) energy sources as solar and geothermal; and increasing reliance on new systems, such as co-generation, for achieving major increases in the efficiency of fuel and/or energy utilization. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 7218974
• Journal Information: Technol. Rev.; (United States), Journal Name: Technol. Rev.; (United States) Vol. 79:8; ISSN TEREA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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