Energy Balance in The Year 2000

Abstract

One may define “energy” for present purposes as the factor which all fuels and other sources of power have in common — the capacity to do useful work through the production of heat, light and motive force. Although usually taken for granted, energy is one of the most basic requirements of an advanced industrial society with high living standards. This becomes immediately apparent whenever supply fails or is temporarily threatened, e.g. New York’s electric power black-out in 1965, the closure of the Suez Canal in 1956 and again in 1967.

“Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it”

Mao Tsetung