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...spokesman explained patiently that Con Ed will get the power for Storm King from "cleaner" (thermal and radiation pollution aside) nuclear generating plants. But most of Con Ed's nuclear plants have not been allowed to operate at full capacity-in fact, some have not been allowed to operate at all. If this situation continues, the spokesman assured, the power would be purchased from other members of the Northeast Power Grid. If fuel oil is to be wasted, the reasoning apparently runs, it won't be ours; if the air is to be polluted, atleast...
Harnessed high above the earth, where it would produce no thermal, chemical or radioactive pollution, a single mini-black hole could fulfill all of mankind's power needs for the foreseeable future...
...noth ing of gasoline-station attendants. By now the poor patient knows Doc Heilbroner's gloomy figures practically by heart. Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double. And even if they are met by extractions from granite or sea water or God knows what, thermal pollution will increase by 100% in the next couple of centuries, driving atmo spheric temperatures up an intolerable 50 degrees Centigrade. The population will be doubling in Latin America every 24 years, in Africa every 27 years, in Southeast Asia every 30 years...
...snowmobile, car or truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also used for getting round the ice towns, but purists frown on them, complaining that their racket scares the fish away. Another factor in the growth of ice-fishing has been the development of thermal-layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer...
...toughest trade problems: paying for massive imports of foreign technology. In addition to expanding its trade with the U.S., China has been on something of an international spending spree. This year it contracted for about $ 1 billion of industrial goods including coal mining equipment from Great Britain, fertilizer and thermal power plants from Japan and a petrochemical complex from France. In January, the government disclosed that the Chinese were willing to seek "deferred payment arrangements"-a euphemism for foreign credits-to pay for still more technology. This departure from China's previous policy, buying only what it could...