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Show Energy I Armstrong Sparks Concerns I However, he stressed that the real I solution will come through freedom, I hardwork, intelligence, honesty and a I world-wide concern. I , 1 ? ' ' : i ,K I ' ! s ' 1 1 uY t Mir t tiff Dr. Ellis Armstrong near future and said that our $100 billion tab for imported oil just this year affects all our economic policies: He referred to a study prepared for . the International Commission on Energy Conservation by the University of Cambridge in England which ,. stated that world energy demands in ten years will be for 85 million barrels of oil a day and that world production is currently 60 million barrels a day and expected to level off at 40 million barrels a day. Utahh through current exploration '. for oil in the Overthrust Belt geologic formation, its coal fields , oil shale ' and tar sands will play an important ijole in pie nation's, energy, future but l( .,, ve'Ye facing a magnitude of.'capital V '(pehditUres!ihd heed lead time' i stated the energy authority. He also said that only a third of the nation's potential hydro electric power has been developed and that Cedar City should be using some of the power generated at the Glen Canyon Dam by the BOR; With coal providing a potential 200 years of energy for the nation and nuclear energy hundreds of years, Armstrong advocates the further development of these sources. . "When President Carter backed out of the Clinch River Reactor, the Germans could not believe it. Everyone else is now ten years ahead of us in nuclear energy technology," he continued. He pointed to the future of nuclear energy from fusion saying that we have enough plutonium for the next 347 million years. "The possibility that sunshine will become a major energy replacement is ludicrous. If we put solar collectors all over Arizona, the cells would only produce 10 percent of California's electric needs," said Armstrong. More use of mass transportation, insulation and getting government out of its "regulatory quagmire" would all help the energy situation in Armstrong's Arm-strong's opinion. "It finally looks like some sensible ideas are coming out of the White House," he said. Energy development and conservation con-servation coupled with an exploding world population which will reach nine billion by 2020, was discussed by energy authority Dr. Ellis Armstrong at the Chamber of Commerce's luncheon meeting last week. Armstrong, a Cedar City native, currently chairs the hydraulic resources task force of the World Energy Conference International Commission on Energy Conservation. He is a former director of the Bureau of Reclamation. "The worldwide demand for energy will exceed the world's physical ability to supply it in ' ;, ten years. We need energy to fill that gap. Otherwise we could face economic and social chaos on a worldwide basis," stressed Armstrong. The United States' oil production is predicted t at 10 million barrels a day through the end of the century with natural gas production levelling off. Armstrong predicted that we are going to beable to make up our energy shortfall with coal and nuclear in the |