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Energy Income Sequence:
"Projection of the United States power base led us to the figure of 15,000 kilowatt hours per capita per meal. This will mean a total of 100 trillion kilowatt hours for the population of the world at the year 2000. . .
“These are the winds, the tidal, the geothermal, and algae culture energy sources. If we develop all the hydroelectric power, that’s 15 trillion. We could burn coal to make up the rest but we don’t want to do it, because that’s burning up our spaceship as we go along-- and that’s something we can’t replace.” Income energy sources " are the ways we get energy, as much energy as we need, without having to do that. There’s a tremendous amount of tidal energy in the world caused by the Moon’s pull, where the levels are different. We could get about four trillion kilowatt hours out of all those tidal sources. Geothermal energy sources have to be investigated. And a very important source of energy is the Sun, which really comes into all the other energy sources. The most efficient way of taking energy from the Sun is by growing algae with it. . . Algae could be grown in the deserts with only a foot of rainfall. There’s 50 trillion kilowatt hours potential in the Kalahari Desert. And you could get"
