Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Harrison H. Schmitt
Title:  Energy Realities for the Third Millennium
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  i-iii
Volume:  Volume 10
Issue:  Number 4
Year:  1989
Abstract:  Complexity, controversy, and timidity continue to rule considerations of energy policy for the United States. This combination of impediments has guaranteed the continuing absence of a rational and comprehensive policy reconciling energy, environmental, economic, and security issues. A pragmatic set of energy milestones for America to achieve by the end of the first quarter of the next century can be easily defined: •	The last coal-fired power plant and the first environmentally benign fusion power plant would have been built. •	The first commercial assembly plant for hydrogen-fueled automobiles would have reached full production along with the creation of the necessary hydrogen fuel infrastructure throughout the country. •	Clean, safe, and efficient transportation systems would have fully replaced the automobile in the core areas of the ten largest cities. •	The first total conversion of a southwestern suburb to solar heating and cooling, solar electric house power, and solar electric cars would have been completed.
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