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Energy for Australia (1976)
| Author | A.H.Corbett |
| Date | 1976 |
| Classification | 4.22.0.00/02 (AUSTRALIA - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Preface This book was commenced in a year of energy crisis, a year in which the international price of crude oil was artificially multiplied by a factor unparalleled in world trade, and a year in which a new Australian government settled to some of the tasks associated with the development of a national energy policy. If that policy is to succeed, it must relieve the near-crisis in the provision of energy for a country that is bountifully endowed with energy resources and yet heavily dependent on international trade in coal, crude oil and uranium. Energy for Australia is addressed to the informed layman, to the undergraduate and to the senior high school student who wishes to understand a powerful influence on the environment and the society in which our citizens will spend their lives. That influence is energy: to provide it Australia has to select well in advance the right fuel mix for the next twenty-five years. Energy is made available by natural resources and by technology. Technology demands men, machines and money, all of which link energy with politics. All technological development has an impact somewhere on the environment, and community acceptance of environmental change is another link between energy and politics. Wise political decisions come only from representatives of an informed and thinking electorate. The structure of the book is such that the chapters follow a logical sequence from the past to the future, but any chapter can be read as a self-contained unit. On the other hand the book can be split into three sections, if the reader has specialized interests. Australia's basic energy resources are coal, natural gas and crude oil, and the past, present and future of the industries that produce these resources are the subject matter of chapters 1 to 5, and 17.
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