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THE U.S. has become an electricity glutton. We use 1.6 trillion kilowatt-hours a year, ten times as much as in 1940. Only now, amid power shortages and the new ecological worries, are we getting around to wondering how long the feast can go on. Those who took pride a few years ago in the “clean, flameless” heat of their all-electric homes are beginning to realize that most electricity is clean only at the consumer’s end of the wire, and that the fuel burned to generate it can run out, just like everything else.
Of course we aren’t go
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