Alvin M. Weinberg, in American Scientist (Mar.-Apr. 1978), 345 Whitney Ave., New Haven, Ct. 0651 1.
The great energy debate, like great religious conflicts of the past, stems from two differing conceptions of the future: "the solar utopia and the electrical, i.e., nuclear, utopia." Both utopias, says Weinberg, director of the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn., are conceiv- able, and the most prudent planning will aim at some combination of the two.
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