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Hidroelectricidad -<br />

Fundamento Para el Prsgreso<br />

Ellis L. Armstrong<br />

Somos todos vecinos contendiendo con ios costos<br />

rapidamente escalantes de una fuente incierta de<br />

energia - el petroleo. No obstante, la hidro-<br />

electricidad bien establecida y actualmente eficiente,<br />

representa un metodo muy razonable para que<br />

podamos reducir nuestra dependencia de1 petroleo.<br />

Esta es la tesis de la presentation de1 Ellis L.<br />

Armstrong. Solo 17% de la hidroelectricidad mundial<br />

utihzable ha sido desarroilado. En eonsecuencia. ei<br />

concluye: “Debemos seguir avanzando.”<br />

La mayotia de 10s probiemas de hoy dia, aun cuando<br />

todos tienen foco local, se corker-ten en importantes<br />

problemas desde un punto de vista mundial.<br />

Especialmente desde que mi primo Neal Armstrong<br />

descends a la luna, nuestra conscientizacion respect0<br />

a este mundo nuestro se hate m&s aguda. Lo querramos<br />

o no, estamos todos juntos en este pequeno y<br />

antiguo astronave Tierra, y juntos debemos resoiver<br />

nuestros problemas. Literalmente, todos somos<br />

vecinos, casi cualquier lugar de1 mundo esti a menos<br />

de un &a de distancia de1 otro. Y tenemos <strong>com</strong>unicacion<br />

pictorica instantkea. Lo que sucede en un<br />

lugar, sucede en todas partes, porque nos afecta a<br />

todos.<br />

Cuando yo naci, despues de 6 a 8 mil aiios de<br />

“civilizaeion” que se puede reconocer <strong>com</strong>a bl, hab,ia<br />

cerca de un billon y medio de poblacion sobre nuestro<br />

pianek. Recientemente hemos pasado ia marca de<br />

10s 41/z billones y <strong>com</strong>a al ario 2020 se predice que el<br />

numero ha de ser ei doble, o sea, 9 billones aproximadamenie.<br />

Del total, 10% estaran en lo que<br />

llamamos el mundo industrial libre; 25% es+aran en<br />

1 los planeados paises centrales de U.S.S.R. y China y<br />

sus satelites; y 65% estaran en 10s pai’ses en desarrollo.<br />

Asi que, <strong>com</strong>a se puede ver, confronbmos problemas<br />

diferentes a 10s de la generation pasada. Para<br />

que la humanidad pueda sobrevivir, debemos todos<br />

estar imbtidos y profundarnente envueltos en la<br />

satisfaction de las necesidades de la poblacion de<br />

todo el mundo, y en el mejoramiento de las condiciones<br />

humanas en 10s pakes menos desarrollados.<br />

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para adaptar el ambiente a sus necesidades, la vida<br />

era precaria, llena de temeridad, sufria muchas<br />

<strong>Hydropower</strong> - Fundamental<br />

For Progress<br />

Ellis L. Armstrong<br />

We are all neighbors contending with rapidly<br />

rising costs of an uncertain source of energy -<br />

petroleum. However, hydropower, well esta-<br />

blished and now efficient, represents a very<br />

reasonable method for us to reduce our depen-<br />

dence on oil. That is the thesis of Ellis L.<br />

Armstrong’s presentation. Only 17% of the<br />

world’s usable hydropower has been developed.<br />

Consequentiy; he concludes: “We must get going<br />

now.”<br />

Most of today’s problems, while they all have<br />

local focus, are be<strong>com</strong>ing increasingly important<br />

from a worldwide standpoint. Especially since my<br />

cousin Neal Armstrong landed on the moon, our<br />

awareness of this one world of ours has<br />

sharpened. Whether we like it or not, we are all<br />

on this little old spaceship together, and together<br />

we must resolve our problems. We are all literally<br />

neighbors; most any place on earth is less than a<br />

day away from any other place. And we have<br />

instantaneous pictorial <strong>com</strong>munication. What<br />

happens anywhere,<br />

are all involved.<br />

happens everywhere, for we<br />

When I was born, after 6 or 8 thousand years<br />

of recognizable “civilization”, there were about<br />

1X billion people on our planet. We just recently<br />

passed ?he 4?.. billion mark and by the year 2920<br />

the number will likely double to 9 billion or so. Of<br />

the totai, 10% will be in the so-called industrial<br />

free world; 25% will be in the centrally planned<br />

countries of U.S.S.R. and China and their<br />

satellites; and 65% will be in the developing<br />

countries. So you see, we are facing different<br />

problems than those of a generation ago. For<br />

mankind’s survival, we all must be concerned and<br />

deeply involved in meeting needs of people all<br />

over the world, and in improving human conditions<br />

in the !eSS deve!oped countries.<br />

For centuries when man had to rely only on his<br />

own muscles to provide energy to adapt his<br />

environment to meet his needs, life was<br />

precarious, fearful, disease ridden, and short. To<br />

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cold and the heat; he had to outwit wild animals<br />

and his enemies; he had to find and safeguard<br />

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