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Among all the other economic changes that are taking place in Europe, one that has gone almost unnoticed outside the Continent itself is an upheaval among Europe's sources of energy. By 1970, the Common Market's need for power to fuel its growth will have almost doubled. To Europe's coal industry, long the basic power supplier of the Continent, this need should be good news-but it is not. Just as the U.S. switched in the late 1940s from dependence on coal to oil and natural gas, Europe today is undergoing a basic power change...
...frequent processions of silent, protesting miners carrying banners attest to the human consequences. Ten years ago, the 225 million tons of coal that Britain mined each year represented 91% of all the energy it consumed; by last year output had dropped to 191 million tons, or 72% of all fuel. All over Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, coal's share of the power market is growing smaller and smaller...
...Rivals. As in the U.S., oil and natural gas are rapidly taking over as cheaper and more convenient fuels. Most of Europe's factories, trains and homes will soon hum, run and heat on oil, and a few steel mills right in the Ruhr valley are now fired by oil. In 1960, the Common Six consumed 87 million tons of oil, or 27% of all fuel used-while coal's share dropped to 54%. By 1970, oil imports will raise the total to 48%. The discovery of natural gas in Italy's Po valley, in France...
Dynamited Danube. In the bitter cold, many nations suffered acute fuel shortages. In the U.S., the mayor of Huntsville, Ala. declared an emergency because of rapidly vanishing natural gas supplies. The British government organized a 4,000-truck coal convoy to bring fuel into freezing communities, and the nation's serious unemployment problem worsened as farms and construction firms laid off tens of thousands of workers because of the cold. In Paris, the French Cabinet ordered that priority on coal deliveries be given to the aged. As Yugoslavian factories began to shut down for lack of heat, coal miners...
...giant rockets designed to boost a man-carrying capsule to the moon will burn more than 2,000 tons of fuel, and a large part of their exhaust gases will be deposited more than 80 miles high, up where the air is only one-billionth as dense as at sea level. Once discharged at that altitude, the gases will not fall for weeks or months, and the air in which they will be floating is so thin that a small amount of contamination can have profound effects. Physicists Jerome Pressman, William Reidy and Winifred Tank of Geophysics Corp. of America...