Research and development: Breaking the crisis: Options cover primary energy resource recovery, fuel conditioning, conversion, improved transmission, and storage

No industrialized nation can continue to ignore the serious depletion of fuel supplies that led to a near panic during the Arab oil embargo. Unless new options can be developed quickly, even the most stringent conservation measures will not prevent eventual “enervation.” Recognizing this fact, the United States, and also its industrial competitors, has embarked on a major effort to discover and weigh all available near-term and long-term technological “solutions” to impending fuel shortages.