alternative sources of power well on their way. The

alternative sources of power well on their way.

The sun, without which we would not be here at all, sheds enough energy on this planet each hour to supply all of our needs for one year!

Direct combustion as in coal-fired power plants (and we are rich in coal) is a mature technology which can, with established pollution safeguards, help us through. As we grope, from now on, for every British Thermal Unit (BTU) of energy we will find that each alternate source as water power, tidal, coal-oil mix, bio-mass, wood waste, solar power and wind will make up many percentage points toward our needs, as well as being far more interesting and clean and satisfying to human beings to produce.

The safer exotic, fusion, is in the offing also, after a long wait. With a little old-fashioned conservation on our side, we should look to a clean and healthful future.

One of the worst aspects of our energy situation is the view of doom ahead deeply felt by the younger generation. Combined with an almost sickening glut of convenience, much damage has been done to them here, as in the “drug culture.”

Usually better informed environmentally than their elders, what have they to look forward to? For one, the greenhouse effect on our atmosphere brought by pollution. The threat of nuclear disaster, which would pale science fiction, air damage and health damages are hardly stuff that onward-looking youth can romance about.

It is our view that we must be looking down the wrong street with nuclear fission, by concentrating on fission in our technology as opposed to making a strong move toward the development of fusion power which appears to be a far safer avenue in the future of the exotics.

Let our young combine vigorously with us for their clean future in this that has been, and can still be, a most beautiful world.