Spectral lines: Energy crisis: Seeking the real alternatives III

While we were addressing the possibility of modeling the world energy situation, or more practically parts of it (“Spectral lines,“ Jan., Feb. 1974), the Britons had cast aside any such ambitions in favor of pragmatic solutions. They had to! By January, many industries had been cut to a three-day week or by other means had been restricted to drawing no more than 65 percent of normal power from the mains.