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...becomes scarcer, it will become costlier, Wagner asserts, and companies must search harder for alternative sources of energy, particularly from coal. "We can make gas from coal while it is still in the mine, and we can make oil from coal. Coal has a future, and a very long one; the world has coal reserves for hundreds of years, not just for half a century, as it has for oil." He also argues that the world should limit its use of energy: "At the moment we waste some of it, using it as if there were no tomorrow. We overheat...
...social spending. Yet the math is tricky. Some Democratic economists calculate that his defense cutbacks would save $10 billion less than he thinks. His revenue proposals could raise less than he estimates because Congress tends to shave down proposals for tax increases. His social programs could easily be costlier than he calculates because Congress has a propensity for jacking up spending...
ALWAYS EXPENSIVE, a Harvard education is becoming costlier each year. But a new Harvard program announced this year may make the burden easier to bear...
Except for the space program, there is hardly a costlier quest in all of science than exploration of the inner universe of the atom. To peer more deeply into that hidden world-in which more than 100 strange subnuclear particles have already been discovered -scientists have been forced to build ever more powerful atom smashers. Trouble is, the cost of such monsters is now so high-$250 million, for example, for the 500-billion-electron-volt (BeV) accelerator now nearing completion at Batavia, Ill.-that high-energy physicists are anxiously looking for alternate ways of getting a bigger bang...
...foreign oil becomes costlier, U.S. oil companies will step up their search for domestic sources. Already they are moving their derricks farther and farther offshore to tap deposits under the ocean floor. One of the hottest exploration areas stretches along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to North Carolina, ranging from 50 miles to 300 miles offshore. Oilmen estimate that that area of the continental shelf may hold between 122 billion and 169 billion bbl. in potential petroleum resources-roughly 25 to 30 times as much as the U.S. consumes yearly. But a classic battle is shaping up between oilmen...