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496 THE FREEMAN Augusttreatments; hot fishes near powerplants can be saved by dry aircooling towers; solid wastes canbe reduced to ashes, and the remainsrecovered and recycled.Many of these solutions are withintoday's technological capabilities.Weare only holding back to seewhich is the best solution, and whoshould pay, before vast investmentprograms begin. Even the wasteheat disposal problem for earthmay eventually succumb to the ingenuitiesof our scientists and engineers,just as the spectre ofworld famine forecast by WilliamCrooks was dispelled by Haber andBosch.All of this may not be cheap,and the cost of using energy mayhave to go up. But let us tell everyonethat a clean and adequate energysupply can be managed if wegive chemists and chemical engineersa chance. But w~ must planahead. ~- Footnotes -1 Kobe, K. A., Inorganic Process Industries(Macmillan, New York, N.Y., 1948),p.230.2 Jeans, James The Dynamical Theoryof Gases (Dover, New York, N.Y.), 1954,p.342.3 Leontief, W. W., "The Structure ofthe U.S. Economy," Sci. Amer., p. 25,April 1965.4 Oil Gas J., p. 100, March 1, 1971;Energy News, 1 (10), March 15, 1971.5 Elec. World, March 15, 1971.6 My utility bill at Princeton, N.J.7 The Autqmobile and Air Pollution, areport of the Panel on Electrically PoweredVehicles, U.S. Department of Commerce,Oct. 1967, pp. 49-99.8 Schurr, S. H., and Netschert, B. C.,Energy in the American Economy 1850­1975 (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,Md., 1960) , p. 728.9 Landsberg, H. H., and Schurr, S. H.,Energy in the United States (RandomHouse, New York, N.Y., 1968).10 Singer, S. F., "Human Energy Productionas a Process in the Biosphere,"Sci. Amer., p. 175, September 1970.11 Dole, H. M., American's EnergyNeeds and Resources, speech by the AssistantSecretary of Interior at StanfordUniversity, January 12, 1971.12 Mills, G. A., Johnson, H. R., andPerry, H., "Fuels Management in an EnvironmentalAge," Environ. Sci. Technol.,p. 30, January 1971.13 Ehrlich, P. R., and Ehrlich, A. H.,Population, Resources, Environment (W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, Calif., 1970) ,Chap. 4 and 6.14 Welles, J. G., "Will the Earth Reachan Energy Ceiling1" Wall Street Journal,January 6, 1971.15 Landsberg, H. E., "Manmade ClimaticChanges," Science, 170, 1265,(1970); Environmental Quality, a reportby the Council on Environmental Quality,August 1970, Chap. V.16 Adelman, M., "The World Oil Outlook"in Natural Resources and InternationalDevelopment (Johns HopkinsPress, Baltimore, Md., 1964).17 Strom, A. H., and Eddinger, R. T.,Chem. Eng. Progr. 67 (3), (1971).18 Gordon, T. J., remark at a conferenceat the Institute of Man and Science,Rensselaerville, N.Y., 1969.19 White, A., Handler, P., and Smith,E. L., Principles of Biochemistry, (Mc­Graw-Hill, New York, N.Y., 1964), p. 282.20 Hubbert, M. King, "Energy Resources,"in Resources and Man, by thecommittee on resources and man, NationalAcademy of Science-National ResearchCouncil (Freeman, San Francisco,Calif., 1969).21 Gaucher, L., Chem. Technol., March1971, 153.22 Glaser, P., Chem. Technol., October1971, 606.