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local / state Battalion/Page 5 October 11, 1982 ! S Calls for action on fuel crisis Bryan W i Nobel prize-winner speaks police offitr iremen, i*c j tion offoric lomanajet i he thuilii il budgetir. ® by Rebeca Zimmermann lS f* 1 ' , 7 Battalion Staff .“milbefjji ^ Nobel Laureate scientist the at), tj .^ifi Friday that Americans must srorgasiti. feview the energy problem and find alternative energy sources, jet alloi%ffl| “I n my opinion, we Amer- ijcans should again take the ener gy problem seriously,” said Dr. Hans Bethe, the first speaker for the Eugene L. Miller Lecture Series on Public Policy. “We are far less prepared for an energy emergency than a military attack,” he said. | He said the Reagan adminis- ! neededainii-, d ation has no plans to cope with understands a n energy emergency. Private :he city cotmj industries are left to cope with understandt the problem. :o be doner ; || “Until 10 years ago it was the resource, .taken for granted we would al- I.“AIU«. ways have enough energy and wecangetiia could choose what kind to use,” he said. I “We have to remain aware tliat oil is a scarce commodity and we have to do everything to C! C VP'diice oil consumption in this ^ Jd ■ oumn -" jt-'lpp Long range predictions show <Hrie world running out of oil in a about 2075. With a curtailment ] |A of consumption, he said, oil X Ld probably will last past the year 2100. By 2030, Bethe said the world till need three times as much his reg® itv-related . ; “day. eeDinjpteH Hesaid there are lwo separate j S omed4# nergy P roblems: providing classifiedtb W ou § h total energy and provid- , ser ing enough oil for transporta- I ° 'l nf f^ <)n uses ’ which cannot have K) " zc J, spbstitions to replace it for years. JUr P e0 |;M Bethe said solar energy is not ° USe ,il® ie answer to the energy prob- umenlS n 1pm; it is not economically vens -.^ feasible. int He listed three ways to attack the energy problem: conserva- •ingt Dr rdi associr id the cenK “top secret) e past ndle niore- pon, finding sources and other energy substitution of other fuels. He said an important future energy source is shale oil in the United States. He said shale oil could provide four or five times the total amount of normal pet roleum. Bethe said not much can be done about transportation ener gy use except to make more effi cient cars, but other industries which use oil can have substitu tions. He said heating of residential and commercial buildings may be accomplished just as well or better with natural gas. Alternatives for oil include coal, electricity and nuclear power, he said. However, he didn’t discuss recent develop ments at the University in the use of hydrogen as an alterna tive energy source. Coal causes pollution, but sci entists are working on solutions for this. Coal is abundant, but it is abundant only in the U.S., U.S.S.R. and mainland China. Also, coal mined in Western Europe is more expensive to buy there than coal mined and ship ped to Europe from the United States. The most pressing problem, Bethe said, is that the burning of coal — and any fossil fuel — pro duces carbon dioxide. The current increase of 0.3 percent a year may lead to a greenhouse effect in 100 years, he said. This greenhouse effect would cause an increase in tem perature on the earth and air and water vapor circulation may decrease. Electricity works well with machinery he said. The use of electric heat pumps has a high efficiency, but it is only useful in certain climates. He suggested electricity used at night could be sold at a cheap er rate than daytime prices. Nuclear power is needed in countries which have no fossil fuels, he said. “For Europe it is far more economical to build nuclear plants than coal plants,” he said. By 1990 France will receive two- thirds of its energy from nuclear power plants. “Many people believe the waste from nuclear plants is a terrible problem, an insoluble problem,” he said. “However, from a technical viewpoint, it is perfectly clear. Put the waste deep underground.” He said nuclear waste buried 2,000 feet underground in geologically stable areas will be “quite safe.” Strong glass cylin ders buried in horizontal holes and surrounded with a special clay-like rock will probably con tain the material for millions of years. He said the French and the Swedes already do this. “Even if all failed,” he said, “it would take an enormously long time for radioactive material to come out.” He said in the long run coal and nuclear power will be the main energy sources available. 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Freshmen hold runoff Tuesday DR 1 The top vote-getters in the Ireshmen class will square off in Tuesday’s runoff election for Pass of ’86 officers. The two candidates who re vived the most votes in each in dividual contest will face each pther in a runoff because neith er candidate received a majority )n last week’s elections. Howev er, three candidates will be com peting for the office of vice- president since only one vote IJfeparated the second- and third- place candidates. Candidates for president are Billy Cassel and Mike Cook; for vice-president, Brad Wynn, Brian McConnell and Doug Wit- trup; for secretary-treasurer, Robert Shepard and Maureen Lassonde; for social-secretary, Lori Zeigler and Stephanie Ackles. Results from the elections should be posted outside room 216 of the MSC Tuesday night after they have been tabulated and approved by the judicial board. 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