ABSTRACT
Several pieces o f input/output work not covered in the seminar papers
are currently under way or recently completed. R. Herendeen, at the
University of I llin o is Center for Advanced Computation, is working with
a 326-sector 1963 input/output table to calculate the to ta l energy cost
o f various classes o f products. A particularly interesting application
of this work is the computation of the comparative tota l energy consump
tion of two alternative products used for essentially the same purposes
(e .g ., tin cans and bottles for soft drinks.) This is the so-called product
pair approach. A 367-industry input/output model is also being developed
at the University of I llin o is Center for Advanced Computation by B. Hannon
and H. Folk for the evaluation of various alternative national budgets,
l ife s ty le s , and scenarios. James Just of the Massachusetts Institute of
analysis to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of new tech
nologies. (Although no systematic attempt to document institutional
involvement o f the papers in this volume has been made, the National
Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation through the Energy Policy Project,
and the Mitre Fellowship Fund are known to have contributed financially
to the current i/O work.)
E d itors Introduction
The previous paper describing work by Reardon dealt with the appli
cation o f 1-0 techniques to calculate h istorica l d irect and indirect
energy use coe ffic ien ts and "technology change" and "fina l demand"
components. The work by Almon illu stra tes a forecasting application.
