A report entitled “Materials Technology in the Near-Term Energy Program” has been prepared by the Commission on Sociotechnical Systems of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. This report was prepared for the Science Advisor to the President by the ad hoc Committee on Critical Materials Technology in the Energy Program. The report can be obtained from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22151.
In a simple way, it says that corrosion limits all the major energy sources important to the economy over the next decade.
This report resulted from a request by the Science and Technology Policy Office to the Commission on Sociotechnical Systems of the National Research Council. The objective was to organize a short term study of critical materials research and energy needs in connection with the implementation of federal energy goals. The object of the study was to identify: (1) “In a...
