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100	1	0	_aHall, Randal L. _eauthor
245	0	0	_aFossil Fuel Scarcity, Renewable Sources, and Alternative Futures in 1950s U.S. Energy Systems Discourse
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520			_aThis paper analyzes 1950s U.S. discussions of looming fossil fuel shortages, with a focus on Eugene Edmond Ayres Jr. and Charles Albert Scarlott, authors of Energy Sources—The Wealth of the World (1952). They emphasized conservation, efficiency, and the conversion of varied sources to contribute to energy systems, including food systems. They (and others such as Lewis G. Weeks and M. King Hubbert) considered tar sands, oil shale, peat, coal, and uranium, as well as the winds, tides, and solar energy. By the close of the 1950s, this cycle of discussions about fossil fuel shortages had played out due to technological optimism and recognition of abundant world supply through the medium term, despite a dissenting undercurrent of concern. These examples foreshadow the better-known round of 1970s debates about oil and renewable energy.
690			_aConsumption
690			_aOil
690			_aProduction
690			_aRenewable
690			_aTransition
786	0		_nJournal of Energy History | o 12 | 1 | 2024-11-20 | p. 1e-17 | 2649-3055
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-of-energy-history-2024-1-page-1e?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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