Examines possible energy options and outlines assessments and conclusions influencing recent top level energy thinking and planning. Indicates that no nation on earth appears to have either a coherent long-range energy strategy or the institutions needed to devise one. (JR)

Criticizes the energy policies of the Nixon Administration, claiming that they tend to perpetuate the wasteful trends of the past and accelerate degradation of the environment. (JR)

Examines some of the options available for satisfying future energy demands and discusses the consequences of developing the various energy sources. (JR)

Energy consumption in Japan has grown at a faster rate than in any other major industrial country. To maintain continued prosperity, the government has embarked on a crash program for nuclear power. Current progress and issues/reactions to the plan are discussed. (JN)

Congested cities can be used to advantage in conserving energy. With present technology, solid wastes can be recycled and used in environmental-industrial parks to supply energy for cities. (PS)

Efforts to uncover big deposits of coal in Montana have created resentment among state people. (PS)

Discusses methods of ensuring that technological forces are harnessed for the common good and that mere technological change is not pawned off on us as technological progress." Argues that many problems have arisen because there was no group in charge" of technology. (AL)

None of society's current sources of electricity are risk free. Fission, oil, and coal power all have the potential for triggering major social or environmental instabilities. The risks associated with nuclear-electric energy must be weighed against those of the alternatives. Suggestions for improving reactor safety are discussed. (BT)

This article examines the use of power tower technologies for the production of synthetic fuels. This process overcomes the limitations of other processes by using a solar furnace to drive endothermic fuel producing reactions and the resulting fuels serve as a medium for storing solar energy. (BT)

Outlines briefly the energy policy areas being considered and researched by the Energy Policy Project at the Ford Foundation and discusses some of the options available to the United States to satisfy energy requirements in the future. (JR)

Suggests that in trying to avoid the extreme Malthusian catastrophy, collision between decreasing resources and increasing population, expanded efforts should be made to develop safe and plentiful nuclear power while meeting the real needs of the near future by moderating unwarrented demands and improving conventional techniques. (Author/AL)