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...Electric power increased 252%, from 48.3 billion kilowatt-hours annually to 170.1 billion. (U.S. kw-h rose...
...soared from 5 to 17 Ibs. a year since 1900, now uses more than half the free world's copper production. For example, the electrical industry, which expects to double in size in the next decade, uses 115 Ibs. of copper to generate and distribute each new kilowatt of power...
...most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser's high dam: $1.5 billion...
Silver Substitute. The copper shortage may soon start pinching many areas of the surging U.S. economy. The generation and distribution of each new kilowatt of electrical power requires 115 Ibs. of copper, and to date the only completely satisfactory substitute is silver, costing 90? an ounce. Copper is essential to automobile production; each new car takes an average 24 Ibs., or a total of 10% of all the copper used in the nation. U.S. builders are putting more copper than prewar into home construction, and the average $20,000 copper-wired, copper-piped house uses about $400 worth...
Electricity: 16 billion kilowatt-hours, far less than Norway...