Energy for the Year 2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Energy Futures: Strategies for the U.S.A.

   • Chauncey Starr

   Pages 1-14

3. Solar Photovoltaic Energy Conversion

   • H. Ehrenreich

   Pages 15-49

4. Solar Energy: The Quest and the Question

   • Melvin K. Simmons

   Pages 51-120

5. Energy from the Sea Waves

   • A. Blandino, A. Brighenti, P. Vielmo

   Pages 121-147

6. The Role of Electric System in the Diversification of Energy Sources

   • Luigi Paris

   Pages 149-211

7. United States Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Policy

   • Daniel P. Serwer

   Pages 213-217

8. United States Energy Policy

   • Daniel P. Serwer

   Pages 219-225

9. Energy Scenarios for the U.S.

   • Richard Wilson

   Pages 227-250

10. Fast Breeder Reactors - Lecture 1

    • W. Marshall, L. M. Davies

    Pages 251-262

11. Fast Breeder Reactors - Lecture 2

    • W. Marshall, L. M. Davies

    Pages 263-274

12. Fast Breeder Reactors - Lecture 3

    • W. Marshall, L. M. Davies

    Pages 275-286

13. Fast Breeder Reactors - Lecture 4

    • W. Marshall, L. M. Davies

    Pages 287-302

14. Fast Breeder Reactors - Lecture 5

    • W. Marshall, L. M. Davies

    Pages 303-313

15. How Reactor Safety is Assured in the United States

    • Robert J. Budnitz

    Pages 315-323

16. The Role of Quantitative Risk Assessment in Reactor Safety

    • Robert J. Budnitz

    Pages 325-333

17. Coal Conversion: Advanced Technologies

    • Burkhard Bock

    Pages 335-388

18. Back Matter

    Pages 389-401

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The Third International School on Energetics was devoted to the subject of Energy for the Year 2000. By this title we hoped to avoid discussion of such matters as the role of OPEC in raising oil prices. In one sense, therefore, our task was made easier; we could merely look into our crystal balls. The choice of lecturers was made with the idea that no reason­ able source of energy can be overlooked. We omitted detailed lectures on oil and natural gas because we took it as a given fact that we would continue to use as much of these fuels as we can get at a reasonable price. To give us an overview we started the School by discussing U.S. energy policy and possible U.S. energy scenarios. As might be ex­ pected, there was some disagreement about the current energy program in the U.S., but little disagreement about the facts presented.

• coal
• crystal
• energy
• energy conversion
• energy policy
• fuel
• future
• natural gas
• nuclear energy
• policy
• risk
• risk assessment
• safety
• solar energy
• waves

• Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Richard Wilson

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