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Monday, December 11, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Energy Crisis a Reality
Editor's Note: The University of Kansas switched from natural gas to oil as its major power source Dec. 3. following a request by local gas companies. The change resulted from the additional power needed during cold weather to heat the University.
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN Kansan Staff Writer
"The days of cheap energy are over," said Floyd Preston, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas.
"For the rest of your life the cost of energy consumption will be increasing. Your children will know a grossly different set of energy patterns," he said.
For many years people have been predicting a crisis from the growing gap between the demand for energy and its supply. They say that localized brownouts and blackouts were only the tip of the energy crisis iceberg.
Recently talk of increased utility costs have prompted even more speculation and discussion on the prophesized emergency. The Federal Power Commission reported that there was a shortage of natural gas this winter that would cause some industries to switch to coal or oil.
PRESTON SAID there was an actual crisis. He said the largest natural gas field in the world in the 1950s, the Huguenot field, which supplies to Texas and Oklahoma. By 1865, the difference between the amount that scientists predict the country will need each year and the amount that they predict the country will need each year is the amount found in the Huguenot field, he said.
All the present indications reinforced the content that there is an energy crisis.
The simple fact is that demand is outstripping supply. A report in the November issue of National Geographic said that in the past one hundred years the U.S. demand for increased twentyfold, and the rate of consumption was sharply accelerating.
In that issue Shearon Harris, chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, said, "The utility industry expects consumption of about 400,000 and 1900, and almost quadruple by 1990."
In 1956, the United States used about 42 quadrillion BTUs of total energy, but by 1971, total energy consumption had jumped to 70 quadrillion. It had been projected that
the country would use 223.1 quadrillion RTU's a year by the year 2000.
While coal production should remain stable in the future it had been estimated that even by the most optimistic of predictions indigenous natural gas potentials would be exhausted within 35 years.
U. S. CONSUMPTION of natural gas increased from about 10 quintillion BTUs in 2013 to 50 quintillion BTUs in 2016.
Preston said, however, that these figures might be misleading.
The interrelations of many factors had to be understood to get a handle on the total picture, he said. The problem was not one of simply increasing energy production totals.
"The energy problem is just like the racial problem," he said. "There aren't any sweeping phrases that can be used to define and explain it."
He said that there were many new alternative methods to try, but that there were not enough. "Who did not want utility costs raised, those who were working to glean more energy from nature and those who wanted to get things from ecological and aesthetic damages."
Libraries Set Schedules For Finals Week Hours
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The reserve, circulation, reference and serials sections of Watson Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday.
The documents received in Waxton will be from 4 p.m. on Thursday, 4 m. to 6 p.m., on Friday, 7 a.m. to 10
Saturday
Library is open to Walters will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Library is open to Watson will be open from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Library is open to Sullivan will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Library is open to Saturdays and 7 a.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday.
The East Asian Library to Welcome will be from 8 a.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. It will be closed on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The microfield section in Wittman will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., then from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for 8, 9, 10, or 11 a.m. on p. 11, p. 12, or p. 13.
The Law Library in Green Hall will be open from 8 a.m. to
1 m., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Sundays.
The Music Library in Murray Hall will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday.
Shooting Victim Remains Critical
Chester Dean Shader, victim of the Thursday night shooting at the Hillcrest Shopping Center parking lot, Ninth and Iowa, remained in critical condition Sunday after a crash on campus at University Medical Center. He was reported paralyzed from the neck down.
Shader, 23, RT 2, McLouth, was shot in the Shader, 23, RT 2, McLouth, was shot in the Thursday, Lawrence Police reported.
Held in the shooting was James Turner, 24, 160 Haskell, on charges of aggravated battery and illegally carrying a concealed firearm. The County Jail Sunday in lieu of $7,500 bounty.
According to police the incident occurred in the parking lot west of the Yuk Down. Because the incident reportedly went into the building manager, Dick Wright, to call the police.
Turner remained on the scene until police arrived, police reported.
The incident apparently occurred during a confrontation between the men. Turner stated that he had shot Shader to protect himself, police said.
The Engineering and Architecture Library in Martin will hold a free workshop on Thursday, 9 p.m. to 1 p.m. on p.30th and 7 p.10th to Friday, 9 p.m. to 1 p.m. on p.30th and 7 p.10th.
The Science Library in Malat will be open from 8 a.m. to
10 a.m., and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and
11 a.m. on Monday, for lunch.
The Earth Sciences library in Linden Hall will be open
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on Sunday.
The Mathematics Library in Strung Will be open
on a m. a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. It will be
open from noon to 10 a.m. on Wednesdays.
The Special Collection and Kansas Collection in Spencer
and Lincoln will be held at the University of Kentucky.
The Activity in Spencer will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
the next day. The Activity in Lincoln will be from 10 a.
to 4 p.m. the next day.
The Archives to Spence will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Saturday and Friday. They will be closed on
Saturday and Sunday.
Already conservationists have clashed with industrial interests on such issues as building off-shore oil derricks along U.S. coastlines, beginning construction of nuclear fission power plants without extensive study of the environmental effects and the initiating of the proposed trans-Alaskan oil pipeline.
ACCORDING TO Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at KU, it was along these battle lines and those of nation-states vying for economic position, that the skirmishes would be fought in the manner necessary having to make some concessions.
Most experts agreed that these confrontations would become more common as the supply and demand gap grow wider and so the demand for sensors will diametrically imposed points of view.
The Map library in Spence will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
the following Wednesday and Friday will be closed
for lunch, the Sunday and Saturday.
THEN THEIR is the question of what types of energy sources should become the future energy source.
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"A Lovely Book for Those Who Love Kansas"
by Wes Lyle & James Fisher
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PHOTOGRAPHS and WORDS
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Death at 32 Called Strange By Authorities
Kansas Union
Douglas County authorities were still suspecting foul play Sunday as they investigated the Thursday death of Floyd Kenneth King Jr., 32, of 1513 W. 22nd Terrace. King was reported to be a key witness in a pending Topeka murder case.
King died Thursday night shortly after arrival at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in what hospital authorities described as a semi-conscious state. Deputy County Coroner Dr. Alan Sanders listed a high risk as the preliminary cause of death.
King has been described by Shawnee County authorities as a key witness in charges pending against Jan C. and Eben W. Carpenter. The Carpenter brothers are charged with the first degree murder of Willis Upshaw, July 2, in Topeka. The murder case is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the Johnson County District Court.
The exact cause of death has not been determined but the death is being investigated as though it did not result from an accident. It would like Mr. Mikeell, Douglas County Attorney,
"Let's say it's strange when someone 32-years-old dies." Elwell said Sunday.
Ertwell said that the death was handled routinely by hospital personnel until late Friday night when Douglas and Shawne learned of it and began investigation.
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Saturday.the sounds of B.B. King
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