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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Treading water

Treading water

In 1954, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave a speech in which he famously predicted that "our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter." Whether he was talking about fission reactors or a secret fusion project is unclear, but he was wrong in either case. What did turn out to be too cheap to meter, however, was water.http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/dawn-stover/treading-water

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