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widely usable form of energy. It lights, heats and cools our homes and water, washes and dries cloths, runs heavy machinery in steel mills, powers computers and cell phones, pumps and purifies drinking water and handles waste, on a small, slowly increasing scale, helps transportation, produces our medicines, runs hospital equipment.
America's electric generating capacity is near its limits, as recent “brownouts” and “blackouts” show. We need more, ideally non-polluting, independent of oil and gas,
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