Re: Too cheap. . .

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

Although Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) may have predicted that "electricity
would be too cheap to meter" that would not qualify as a promise from the
"nuclear industry" since he was a theoritical physicist in Germany.  His
school of theoretical physics was closed in 1940, when he was 71 years old,
after Hitler came to power.  It does not appear that he had any involvement
in industrial applilcations of nuclear physics.  Since Lewis Strauss was
interested in physics, he may have heard of Dr. Sommerfeld's prediction and
adapted it to his speech.  He also may have heard about it from someone else
during his tenure as an AEC commissioner.

Don Kosloff dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St., Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: <GlennACarlson@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Too cheap. . .


> The Washington Post, April 19, 1989 --
>
> "In 1946, [UC Berkeley physicist John Holdren] says, a famous physicist
named
> Arnold Sommerfeld predicted that with the development [of] nuclear energy,
> 'electricity would be too cheap to meter' and nuclear energy would abolish
> poverty from the face of the Earth by 1960."
>
> Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
> glennacarlson@aol.com


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