Re: Too cheap. . .

[GlennACarlson@aol.com]

In a message dated Sat, 29 Apr 2000 12:59:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com> writes:

< 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" 

I agree.  I posted the item merely to show that the phrase might have been coined even earlier than 1954.

Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
glennacarlson@aol.com


> 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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