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Show Edition, 1981 gy Aussie Bureaucracy Stymies Progress Continued from Page 47 title except by mutual consent. Areas where mining is prohibited should be clearly identified and reviewed regularly. In the case of existing title disputes, these should be settled by arbitration as quickly as possible so that all parties can stop fighting and start by mutual consent within a stable defined framework. There are a few other operating things governments could do: They could introduce a moratorium on 10-ye- ar new and laws Exciting Developments to Cut Energy Costs on Horizon tralisation. They could act to curb the taxation industry the largest extractive industry in Australia. They could decide to live within their income. They could even decide There are some innovative, even exciting, concepts on Utah Power & Light Co.s horizon that have the potential of holding down costs for electric consumers. In investment controls are of no assistance in the hard export markets of with Phillips Petroleum Company that would that export controls, capital controls and the 80s. But all this, I fear, is wishful thinking. We cannot expect a band of monks to dissolve their own monasteries. We are now in the transfer economy, wher e the road to riches is not through efficiency, regulations. They could find useful profits, savings and jobs for those armies of investment but through intelligent, highly political action. The educated experts who are transfer economy is characterized by conflict now using taxpayers to funds produce where the beneficiaries solutions for which there urge faster transfer of wealth while the victims are yet no problems. They could introduce oppose every new apbirth control of paper- propriation. Resource work. managers of the 1980s could must learn to cope with decide that They the cure for cen- this new uncertainty. Not tralisation is decen only must they overcome the areas of alternate energy supplies UP&L has signed a contract permit energy geothermal to be used to would plan and build a 20 - megawatt power plant using geothermal energy produced from Roosevelt Hot Springs near Milford where Phillips has been participating in the of development geothermal wells since 1975. The Utah Power Light geothermal & in- stallation will be the first in the United States outside of California. generate electricity. Another esoteric Under terms of the contract, Utah Power process that Utah Power all the usual obstacles of nature, markets and finance, they must also learn to survive in the political society. The real heroes of the 1980s will not be the lonely prospectors, the brilliant engineers or the skilled miners. They will not be those who spend their resources seeking loopholes and shelters from the agents of the transfer society. They will be in the midst of the ideological battle, to join the in all political parties and speaking out against their spurious refusing looters arguments. And now. they must start They say the road to is paved with good intentions. If you check the five point plan for energy chaos you will see we are well down that road. You cant keep going to hell forever without getting there. hell & Light is interested in called pyrolysis produces a synthetic crude oil from coal leaving combustible char suitable for fueling power plants. Last September UP&L applied to the Department of Energy for a $4 million grant to study the technique and economic feasibility ' of the process that would produce both fuel for power plants and crude oil from coal. Utah Power would contribute an additional $1 million in technical personnel to the study. UP&L is also investigating the potential of garbage as a fuel for electrical generation. The company is funding in part an evaluation of alternate municipal and wastes. The company is also monitoring electrical generation from windmills to determine the effects of wind generated power on The UP&Ls system. of this purpose primary investigation is to see whether or not wind parallels generation electrical peak demands, whether wind generation could serve to offset the electrical peaks and avoid building capacity for those peak periods. Another potential for holding down costs is through a proposed UP&L weatherization plan. Getting back to traditional generation, constrution on Utah Power & Lights $4 hundred million Hunter waste third unit is moving commercial disposal techniques ahead. Since contraction which could be used as a began this past summer, substitute to existing some 8,000 cubic yards of land fill practices and concrete have been also the possibility of poured for foundation energy recovery from mats which are laced municipal and com- with reinforcing steel. mercial discarded Continued on Page 49 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ. O o o COMPANY Working to Keep Your Trust DDEs B.. Poerce 332 West Railroad Ave. Price, Utah-Ph- one and 637-321- 1 637-321- 7 Serving the Mining Industry of Carbon and Emery Counties 0 o "Serving the Mining and Exploration Industry Since 1955" Specializing in Mineral Exploration, Rotary and Core Drilling Hi DRILLING COMPANY INC. Bud Himes, Pres. 2390 Hwy 6 8.50 West Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 Phone (303) 242-889- 3 0 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 0 o o o o o o o o o 0 o o 0 o o $0000000000000000000000000 |