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the country’s very ability to turn out so much electricity. For one thing, the forecasts count a lot of chickens that haven’t hatched. They assume that half the power in the year 2000 will come from atomic generators. These now supply only 1% of the country’s needs, and the expansion program is behind schedule.
But will we really need all that ^electricity? The forecast assumes that each American alive in the year 2000 will be using more than 20 times as many kilowatt-hours as his counterpart did in '940. But it’s quite possible that the growth curve may soon start to flatten a bit. The manufacturing sector of the industrial economy, which uses a lot of electricity, is growing much more slowly than the services sector, which uses relatively little. And in the home the changeover to major electrical appliances may have already peaked.
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