Abstract
As irony and coincidence would have it, on the opening day of a recent conference at which a retrospective look was taken at local hydroelectric power generation, David Lilienthal, a founding director of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission's first chairman, writing in the New York Times, proposed that "all over this country there are substantial amounts of renewable sources of electrical energy: the energy in the moving waters of our rivers and waterways. The technology and the manufacturing capability to convert these waters to electricity are here today. No long-range plans or large Federal appropriations or guarantees are needed."
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