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What happens to a musician after an accident? Dylan became more serene and reflective. Beck too has changed; maybe only slightly, but he's changed. Perhaps he doesn't want to be labeled as a fossil, a throwback to the late '60's. Whatever the reason, his music appears to be smoother and more refined. At least when he's in the studio...
...current projections, the nation's demand for electricity will double in the decade ahead and multiply as much as six times by the year 2000. Yet the fossil fuels that are needed to generate this crucial power by conventional means-oil, coal, natural gas-are being exhausted at an alarming rate. So, too, are reserves of uranium 235, which nuclear reactors now use as fuel. Meanwhile, such alternatives as harnessing the energy of the sun-or of the earth's tides, winds, or internal heat-remain little more than scientific pipedreams. Even the vision of controlling the power...
Fuller emphatically opposes the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal), which not only are in limited supply on earth but also pollute air and water. To go on using oil and coal, he wrote...
...times the amount of radioactivity produced by coal burning. Such a reactor is also only about 20 per cent efficient, which means over 80 per cent of the heat generated is wasted and must be released to the environment. This is less than half as efficient as a fossil fuel (coal) plant, so the average nuclear plant requires 50 per cent more cooling water. This becomes an acute problem at Vernon where the Connecticut River provides a minimum of water...
What about other sources of power? When many estimate that there are over 300 years of fossil fuels left-coal, shale, oil, natural gas-and that geothermal, fusion, solar, magneto-hydrodynamics and other clean power technologies are just around the corner, why the rush for fission? These other power technologies haven't been given a chance. The AEC spends 83 per cent of its research dollar on fission power. Con Edison spent more on advertising last year than on all research. In fact, over ten times as much is spent on advertising for electricity as is spent on research into...