Energy future — Report of the energy project at the Harvard business school

Given the steady stream of analyses of the “energy crisis” and the debates that they regularly inspire, it is becoming as important to observe who is speaking as what is being said. The present bold volume merits wide attention on both counts. Capping a six-year study of all major aspects of U.S. energy policy, this report gives a comprehensive diagnosis of our energy ills as well as a prescription for treating them over the next twenty years. The authors (a group of seven with varied backgrounds) have the qualifications necessary to tackle as they do the economic, technological, environmental, political, and social complexities which comprise essential threads of this endlessly complicated pattern.