ABSTRACT
A more accurate heading might be “power then and now.” As soon as ways are sought to meet demand not for the year 1985 but for late today and early tomorrow, the old approaches are dusted off. Coal is mined, wood burns and windmills spin, forgot ten schemes to tap the tides or the geothermal heat of hell come to the fore. What they all have in common is that they are within reach. They can be done because they have been done. They were dropped when oil priced them out of the market. Now they are back in new forms; they look better because their costs need only be shaved slightly, not reduced by one or two decimal places.
