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<br />4-WRW washn x x x systems <br />.Uranium enrichment, not on fuel cells. <br />.Heat pumps and more uses of electricity, not on fewer. <br />.The fast breeder. not on orbiting solar power plants. <br />.Blectric cars, not on Wankel engines. <br />and ~E;velopment <br />Ross also favors more research/on synthetic liquid fuels in uddi- <br />tion to coal and on mass transit. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />he says, <br />Our goal should be a nuclear electric economy in year 2000,/wben <br />he estimates the demand for all types of energy and fuels will be about <br />200 quadrillion BTU, or about three times current usage. <br />Major shifts in fuel usage would result. Oil and gas usage, main- <br />ly by direct combustion, would decline from about 80 percent to 15 per= <br />each <br />cent, according to his calculations. Uranium and coal/'would provide <br />total <br />about 30 percent of our nationall17energy needs by year 2000. And from <br />all sourcJelectricity would provide 75 percent of the total energy in- <br />put, according to Ross's projections, when year 2000 rolls around. <br />"Whatever the source, there is quite literally no alternative to <br />an electric economy--except a declining economy. This is the challenge <br />We must begin now to develop the electric energy economy as the answer <br /> <br />to our limited supplies and finite reserves of oil and gas. We should <br />henceforth measure all decisions by the standard of whether they help <br />or hinder the achievement of this new energy system. <br />"Recognition of the dominant roles that electricity, nuclear fuels <br />and coal will play in meeting our future energy needs should be the <br />crux of our national energy policy, the central thrust of our future <br />energy planning. The time is short: the matter is of the utmost urgen- <br />cy. It demands a national commitment akin to that which put men on the <br />moon," Ross told his APPA audience. <br />HOW HE WOUID DO IT <br />Ross would center his attention on transportation, space-heating, <br />in <br />process steam and direct heat lindustry to reduce demand in these areas <br />that use the bulk of the oil and gas. He would have government contin- <br />ue its efforts to get the 1ndlv.idual consumer to reduce his consump- <br />tion of energy, but not his standard of living, on the ground that the <br />latter is impractical. ~ <br /> <br />0182 <br />