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Giant corporations in the U.S. will jostle one another for control of it. The Russians are bound to use the power but never pay for it. After all, they will claim, "we invented the black hole." In England, the coal miners will strike. The French won't participate, preferring instead to have their own black hole. The Germans will set up an efficient power company, claim they are not getting their share and march into Poland...
...Arkansas Public Service Commission has finally set a schedule for its licensing hearings on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed 2800 megawatt coal-burning power plant near Pine Bluff...
...ideal answer to the continuing energy problem in the U.S. For utilities, it makes economic sense to construct plants that use heat from splitting atoms of uranium to spin turbines that generate electric power. Though the average plant costs 10% to 30% more to build than one that burns coal or oil, operating costs are much lower. Nuclear plants are also relatively kind to the environment. They discharge hot water that can harm aquatic life and change the characteristics of lakes; but they cause no air pollution, no spills at sea, no strip mining on land. And the uranium fuel...
...risks inherent in that decision is up to the public. Safety is not the only factor involved. Of all the alternative power sources now available, only nuclear energy is far enough developed to fill Americans' ever-growing demand for electricity in the near future. Should oil and coal, with all their problems, be used to take up the gap? Or can the growth of electricity consumption be slowed enough through energy conservation and more efficient electrical devices to preclude the need for great numbers of new power plants of any kind? As long as the answers remain unclear...
...will be denied what I call this noble product. It will take you $8 to extract your shale or tarsands. So I said let us start with the bottom price of $7; that is the government intake. Suddenly everybody started to shout foul. Why don't you use coal and shale for electricity or to heat houses, and keep this precious petrol for the petrochemicals for another 300 years to come...