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...manufacture a steel beer can with an aluminum fliptop opening takes three times as much energy as making an all-steel can. A frost-free refrigerator consumes almost twice as much electric power as a conventional model. "You use power to make ice-and then use power to melt the ice," complained Microbiologist Barry Commoner as he offered these examples last week in testimony before the House Interior Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Power | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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