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Fuel and power play a key role in technological progress. The capacity and efficiency of production are largely dependent on the use of fuel and power, and indeed the extent of their use is one of the best indicators of the level of technology attained in a country. The Comecon region is reasonably well situated for fuel resources, and great strides have been made in expanding the output of fuel and power as an indispensable appurtenance of industrialization and economic development in general. Between 1950 and 1970 the output of primary fuels and power rose 4·1 times in the Comecon region, whilst in the rest of the world it increased 2·1 times.1
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Maria Hildt (ed.), Potencjał obronno-gospodarczy państw Układu War-szawskiego (Defence and Economic Potential of the Warsaw Pact Countries), Warsaw, MON, 1971, p. 76; A. Yakushin, (‘Co-operation amongst the Comecon Countries in Solving the Fuel Problem’), Vneshnaya torgovlya (Foreign Trade), Moscow, 1/1971, p. 5.
S. M. Yampolskii, F. M. Khilnik and V. A. Lisichkin, Problemy nauchno-tekhnicheskogo prognozirovaniya (Problems of Scientific and Technical Projections), Moscow, Ekonomika, 1969, esp. p. 125.
D. Fikus, RWPG Fakty (Facts on Comecon), Warsaw, PZWS, 1970, pp. 109–10.
A. Bodnar and B. Zahn, Rewolucja naukowo-techniczna a socjalizm (The Scientific and Technical Revolution and Socialism), Warsaw, KiW, 1971, p. 139.
In the USA in 1970, coal, oil, gas and other primary fuels and power represented 20, 43, 33 and 4 per cent respectively; in the USSR in 2000, 18–21, 26, 31–35 and 18–25 per cent respectively. Based on: Statistical Abstract of the United States 1971, Washington, US Dept of Commerce, 1972, p. 496; N. V. Melnikov, Toplivno-energeticheskie resursy SSSR (Fuel and Power Resources of the USSR), Moscow, Nauka, 1971, p. 7.
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Wilczynski, J. (1974). Fuel and Power. In: Technology in Comecon. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01794-2_3
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