so great is our demand that we're looking for new energy in places once considered sacrosanct drilling for natural gas is taking place in george washington national forest in virginia it's a trend that more and more local utilities are getting into because they say they have to protect their pipeline supply in some way they're going into drilling program such as this one they're building that a gas plant importing liquef natural gas because for at least the foreseeable future we don't anticipate any any major increase in the in the pipeline quantity of the vailable but as many wells as may be drilled the prospect of big strikes on this continent appear remote while the average well in the middle east produces five thousand barrels of oil a day the best producing wells in the united states provide far less and proven reserves in the lower forty eight states grows smaller every year the exploration has been stepped up production continues to l we're tapping huge reserves within the arctic circle on the north slope of alaska some geologists claim that the world's greatest fossil fuel resources lie beneath the ocean waters in the north sea off indonesia in the gulf of mexico off the eastern seaboard but underwater drilling is expensive and risky floating platforms are towed out to sea and the anchor drilling rigs are assembled on them at great cost and bits are sent nine to ten thousand feet and more deep into the ocean flo oil and gas from eighteen to thirty wells may pass through one processing raygun a given day for storage piping or sending onto land by tankers proven pools are being tapped beneath these waters in the gulf of mexico natural gas from land as well as ocean based wells is compressed and piped by booster stations across the country from storage facilities mostly based in louisiana and texas but more gas fields must be found and developed it where needs in terms of their reserves available in colorado utah and wyoming they are very large the high quality in my noble reserves that might be produced in the foreseeable future are also very large this could be in the range of five to ten percent of our total liquid fuel requirement what about cold cold remains one of our greatest resources there are only two ways to get out for generations we've gone underground to mine much is already been brought to the surface far more another way to get coal is to strip off a layer of soil and rock rich veins of coal particularly in the west are there just under the surface how you get coal where you use it how you dispose of the way all pose problems too often our countryside has been left scarred with mining waste those concerned about strip mining worn of land ravaged by bulldozers stripped of all greenery once rich desolate eastern coal is more likely to pollute the air than western coal but western coal is far from cities and industrial areas where it's needed laws now require anti pollution devices to screen out more than ninety nine percent of the ashes and waste that once blackened the air around coal fired generators those who have not complied with such standards in the past must do so in the future so that dirty coal can be used in a clean way then vapors will be no more than steam which about parades a few yards away and strip mined land can be reclaimed and restored by replacing topsoil and planting trees and grass while we'll never make a forest out of this area we'll certainly return the land a better he a penley found it before the call is taken out it's a great scene the area several times a year their flocks of sheep go through here congregate in this valley during the weather they return and we're very proud of this they're kind of our pets around there it's expected that within a few years we'll be calling on electricity to supply half of our energy needs unless we find new ways to turn our generators we face serious electricity shortages and we're approaching the outer limits of production there are problems and balancing what other hydroelectric a pass this should be installed because when you build a dam of course you have to flood some area building up the reservoir and back out all those things compromises have been worked out which protect our environment at the same time satisfying more than six hundred wells on four manmade islands in long beach harbor california draw a lot from pools as far as four miles away in close drilling superstructures actually enhance the city's skyline once marked by black and derek's that's one way to attack the shortage while protecting the environment but as with conservation developing traditional energy resources is not enough we need new sources that brings us to our third goal finding new kinds of energy there's nuclear power one theory is that nuclear fusion may be generated by injecting atomic neutral particles into a magnetic field still another involves use of laser beams our hope is to demonstrate or perhaps come up with the invention of a new laser is required to make laser fusion reactors in the early eighty's and perhaps have a prototype reactor growing in the one nine hundred ninety though power generated by nuclear fusion lies in the distant future power from nuclear fission the splitting of that already is a fact but construction delays and the high cost of financing threaten to under mind the united states goal of having half of all  nuclear power by the year two thousand another proven source for energy is geothermal power heat beneath the surface of the earth commercially feasible plants for generating electricity are already operating at the geysers near san francisco  year two thousand we are hopeful that we are going to be able to get on the line maybe as much as seventy five thousand megawatts are again with the current rate of consumption that would be supplied in the use of seventy five million this area is an ideal source to tap for power but only for such fields have yet been found this one in california one in italy one in iceland and one in new zealand we're still learning how to explore power and how to use it once we find again the target date for meaningful production beyond what we now have the next decade success has been limited so far in attempts to capture and use the sun's energy directly but there are an increasing number of solar heated buildings and homes we've been living in solar heat houses for the past fifteen years our first one hundred fuel bill here in washington d c was only four dollars and sixty five  that thirty one gallons of oil for an entire winter and that was with half our days cloudy and temperatures down well below freezing minitab the principle of solar heat is quite simple it works best in areas where most of the days are sunny water running through panels is warmed by the sun's rays heating the house providing hot water for families being stored during the night for use around the clock solar heat is practical it works but it must be supplemented by traditional energy sources no real breakthrough has been made in converting solar energy into electric power target date for this new development no year match scientists and engineers are engaged in basic research now to find other sources of energy wind power underground coal gasification breeder reactors title power but no one presumes to lay down a timetable for achieving man's age old dream of unlimited energy the goal seems too remote the next ten years we must rely on the fossil fuels which have served us in the past with oil and gas production in this country going down each year we have no alternative but to conserve otherwise we are faced with a dollar drain that within one short decade could result in concentrating the world's wealth in the middle east they all export or gets richer and the oil importer gets poorer and the consumer pays the bill unless we conserve while we look for new energy sources we face the recurring threat of embargoes of energy circuits breaking without warning we must recognize right now that energy will cost us more that is a fact of life i think it's going in with everybody tainting their to have it and going back to the things that maybe our parents are used to that we have never seen before just start working now otherwise we won't have time we're going to be out of all of them a we must demand more efficient engines for our cars we must push forward at whatever cost the development of new energy resources we must make personal commitments to cut down wherever we can on the energy we use only this can keep the total energy circuits from breaking disastrously for all of us the energy is here within this universe on this planet it's a challenge facing each of us in all lands to explore to find to develop and to use wisely not wastefully the energy that's here if we meet this