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Friday, November 11, 1983/The Battalion/Page ert says oil reserves W THEfi by Ed Alanis Battalion Reporter The U.S. will use up 25 per cent of its national energy re serves between now and the year 2000, says former Secretary of Energy Charles Duncan, Jr., and because of this new reserves and alternatives must be sought. Duncan, currently the presi dent of a group of energy re lated companies in Houston, gave a program on “Energy Perspectives” to the agricultural engineering graduate seminar Thursday. To effectively deal with to day’s energy uncertainty, Dun can said there were three things that had to be done. First, the U.S. must maximize domestic oil exploration. Then, the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve must be increased at a much more rapid pace. With to day’s oil glut, the reserve could be increased rapidly with little burden on the tax payer, Dun can says. Finally, Duncan said the U.S. and the world must develop alternatives to oil and gas. However, corporations are re luctant to invest in alternative energy projects because of what Duncan termed as a “see-saw effect” in political policy. That is, frequent changes in the na tional energy policy. Duncan stressed a need for continuity in the energy policy, especially from administration to administration. Having been secretary of energy under the Carter administration, he was disappointed to see the major changes in energy policy made by President Reagan. Duncan spoke of a transition taking place in the world — a transition from oil and gas to alternative energy sources. The question is no longer should we make this transition, because the transition is being made whether we like it or not, Dun can said. The question now is how to manage this transition, he says. native energy sources replace it completely. Duncan said it was wrong to think the oil crisis was gone for good — the U.S. should expect tension in the Middle East and plan its energy policy according ly- “It has not been managed well in the past and it is not being managed well now,” Duncan said. Nuclear power can be de veloped safely, he believes, and solar power is a must for the im mediate future. “We cannot be energy isola tionists,” Duncan said, pointing out that the U.S. will depend heavily on oil imports until alter ing the Karen rat Mich; the hoi murder ninal an CSD scientist discusses arious ocean experiments L‘(i April ■cause of ence in i IV with tin (I i rectors ? s las. Gib stable coi im. Ain lav. nit: pragins.! d rtlt by Julie Ennis Battalion Reporter ■ “Oceanography is an under sampled science,” Dr. Walter H. Munk, a professor at the Insti tute of Geophysics and Planet ary Physics at the University of California at San Diego, said Thursday night in the Memorial Student Center. I Munk said investigating oceans requires infinite amounts of data and many hours, months, days and some times years of tedious work and planning. ■ Munk, who has been with the Institute since 1947, is the sec ond in a series of four lectur ers sponsored by the University Lecture Series. Munk, addressing about 200 people, discussed various ex periments that have been com pleted involving new methods of exploring the oceans. He discussed the effects of sound speed on temperature and pressure changes in the ocean, and more specifically on the measurement of sound propegation over very long dis tances. He described steep rays and flat rays of sound that move through the ocean depths after a disturbance. Steep rays are those that undulate from the bottom of the ocean to the top. Flat rays, like their name, move on a stable plane. Using steep and flat ray data obtained from experiments us ing satellite saucers and receiv ers, Munk said, scientists are able to locate slow-moving weather-like features in the oceans by recording the amount of time that the sound takes to be picked up by the receivers. Once the data is collected three questions must be answered, he said. • Can the individual arrivals be resolved? (pulsing sound movements picked up by recep tors)? • Once resolved could they be identified? • Are the results stable or con sistent over months or years? Munk said the measuring of the time between sound pulsings is no better than the clocks that are used. a week, ouncil e woma! who pn ices at g yate reset 7 • '^discusses areersfj lomesisl mt train-!; rom til as madf s, com! n 1 p.m /er you: ■ A building permit misunder standing led to a heated discus sion in Thursday’s College Sta tion City Council regular meeting. ■ Don Dale, a local builder, told the council that city officials had permitted him to ready his lot for construction without warn ing him that he may be denied his building permit. I After several exchanges be tween Dale and City Director of Capital Improvements Elrey Ash, Mayor Gary Halter gavel- led the room quiet and told them to resolve the problem some where other than the council HEB & Arlington Hometown Clubs present Mid Cities Bash Friday, Nov. 11 Parkway Party Room 7:30 SW Parkway Jersey TAMU plans lc lessnei Me looll meeting. i In other business, the presi dent of the Southeast Texas Higher Education Authority, Col. Robert M. Logan, gave his annual report to the council. ■ A public hearing was held concerning the annexation of approximately 166 acres located on Graham Road. No action was taken by the council. ■ The council unanimously approved a rezoning ordinance for two tracts of land on the northwest corner of state High- why 6 and Barron Road. FREE A MASONRY. THROUGHOUT HISTORY GUEST SPEAKER: PETE NORMAND SUNDAY, NOV. 13 7:00 p.m. Room 401 RUDDER TOWER Free Admission Sponsored by the TAMU METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY *-> r^-STr? S rAS r-* R rTS cr* Entr? 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