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As early as the 1960s, in the days of the Office of Coal Research in the Department of the Interior, attention was focused on a need to expand our evaluation of various energy options, to determine whether any of them could replace petroleum or natural gas, which one day are certain to run into short supply, giving consideration to both the technical viability and the economics of the respective technologies. Following the Arab oil embargo in 1973, a sense of urgency arose, fueled by a realization that as a nation we were vulnerable to interruptions in oil supply from overseas, with national security implications.
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Wiser, W.H. (2000). Energy Supply for the Future. In: Energy Resources. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1226-3_17
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