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The seventies may qualify as the decade of the “brown-outs”. Improved energy technology has helped, but more than technology is needed … and soon.
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William L. Crentz is Assistant Director—Energy, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior. A graduate in industrial chemistry with BS and MS degrees from the University of Maryland, he has had more than 35 years of Government service in coal-oriented activities. Following two years of service as a researcher in the Treasury Department, he joined the Department of the Interior with the Bituminous Coal Commission in 1937, and later joined the staff of the Bureau of Mines. He served in various coal research activities with that organization leading to appointment as Director—Coal Research in 1968. He was appointed Assistant Director—Energy in April 1970, and has technical direction of the Bureau’s research investigations involving coal, petroleum and natural gas, shale oil, and helium.
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Crentz, W.L. Energy Crisis. JOM 24, 14–16 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03355770
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03355770