Develop Power Resources To Fullest Capacity
AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. In this country vrliere fuel resources were small and electric power apparently not unlimited, atomic energy held great promise, said Dr. Ii. C. Millei, Director of the Califoriria Aeademy of Sciences, but h.e did not propose that New Zealand should wait for atomie energy. It should develop its thermal resources and all resources to the limit of their capacity as quickly as possible It should not wait for someone else to provide it with a new source of energy . Dr. Miller, who is Professor of Zoology, Oeeanography and Marine Biology, was speaking at a luiicbeon arranged by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Association of Bcientiiic Workers. A well informed atomic scientist told him recently that lie believed that in the relatively near future it would bt possible to use atomic energy to distili sea water into fresh water at a cost of about 3d a ton, added Dr. Miller. That would be cheap enough'for the irrigation of the world 's waste lands and gave some idea of the potentiality of atomic energy.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 February 1949, Page 6
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