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<br />\' <br />~ <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />5-WRW washn x x x impractical <br />Direct heat used mainly by industry is already in a transition <br />phase, according to Ross. Industrial furnaces and ovens, both clean <br />and efficent, powered by electricity are .being put in place now torub- <br />stitute for oil and gas-fired furnaces, he says. <br />Electric space heating is already increasing in use, but it has <br />been primarily of the resistance type. The heat pump, with more than <br />four times the efficiency of an oil or gas furnace, should become the <br />he claims. <br />major means of heating and cooling space./ It is already economically <br />competitive in most parts of the nation. westinghouse is producing a <br />"thoroughly reliable unit." he says. If progress continues on the heat <br />pump, ~e foresee 70 million homes heated electrically by year 2000-- <br />30 million of them with the heat pump," he predicts. <br />Process steam is the largest single user of energy in our economy, <br />s <br />and here too electric boilers are being sUQtituted for gas and oil- <br />fired boilers with the use of a new device that Westinghouse has devel- <br />oped that works something like the heat pump, according to Ross. This <br />device, however, must utilize a lake, river or ocean as a heat source. <br />But it can also utilize waste heat from electric power plants, he says. <br />As to transportation, Ross maintains that "it would be possible to <br />have 5 million electric vehicles of all types in operation by 1985 and <br />100 million by year 2000." Most of them would be operating on electric <br />batteries which could be recharged in less than half the time of the <br />present lead-acid battery and last 4-5 times as long as the lead-acid <br />battery by 1985 and 10 times as long as the lead-acid battery by year <br />2000, according to Ross. <br />westinghouse is already operating three experimental electric pow- <br />ered vehicles at its R&DfBboratory near Pittsburgh for light delivery <br />service. he says. westinghouse expects this type of auto will be used <br />to deliver mail and parcels, for utility and appliance services, in- <br />at <br />lallation and maintenance, as taxis and for meter reading. Electric- <br />powered "people-movers" will work like horizontal elevators, electric <br />now moved by t"ruc!t <br />trains will move half the freight/and 10 percent of the passengers that <br />now fly by plane in year 2000, he predicts. By the same time he pre- <br />dicts the number of autos used fORcR~~~~Ag will decrease by 12 percent. <br />f'I'~t <br />