Current's Future
May, 1971
The power lines you see stretching off at angles to the roads you drive, looping across the countryside, their sagging folds supported by huge steel towers evenly spaced through right of ways cut out of farmland and woods, carry millions of watts of electricity--but not enough, it seems. And demands on the cumbersome system that sends current through these slender conduits will double in ten years. Present technology will be inadequate for two reasons: the finite quantity of resources (coal, wat...
