become a general solution to the developing world's energy problems and call for international cooperation in advancing this technology. Arnold B. Baker, a Senior Consultant of Atlantic Richfield, discusses various senarios for U.S. energy production in the 1980s and 1990s. Concerned with what occurred in the late 1970s, Dr. Baker argues for economically “rationalized” energy policies that “maximize the workings of the market and minimize government uncertainty.” This approach he says will hasten as much as anything the advancement of conservation and soft technology. Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz, former Chairman of the Board of Avco Everett Research Laboratory, and currently of Dartmouth College, argues for an innovative approach he developed in the 1970s to test the veracity of scientific assertions for or against hard and soft technologies. Known as the Science Court, it subjects opposing technical claims to the review of nonpartisan scientific judges and to the counter claims of the opposition utilizing strict judicial procedure. Following the proceedings the judges publish their opinions on the disputed technical information. Dr. Victor Ferkiss, Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, presents a sophisticated discussion of the complex interactions among the soft vs. hard energy technologies and the values of freedom and equality. One of his major conclusions is that both classes of technologies have mixed consequences for these values. Dr. Jack D. Salmon, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of West Florida addresses the topic of Space Industrialization (SI) rather than energy per se. He argues that historically opening up “new worlds” have been combined governmental/private enterprise endeavors. SI can be developed best on an internationally decentralized basis even though the large scale, high technology is in the hands of a few developed nations. In the development process an accommodation between “private” vs. “collectivist” economic approaches would have to be made. REFERENCES 1. Peter E. Glaser, Power from the Sun: Its Future, Science, 162, 857-886, 1968. 2. Gerard K. O'Neill, The Colonization of Space, Physics Today, 27, September, 32-40, 1974. Gerard K. O'Neill, Space Colonies and Energy Supply to the Earth, Science, 190, 943-947, 1975. 3. Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, Small is Beautiful; Economics as if People Mattered, Harper and Row, New York, 1973. 4. Amory Lovins, Soft Energy Paths, Ballinger, Cambridge, 1977.
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