information and ideas. Such activities could be 

 valuable learning experiences for U.S. as well as 

 developing country personnel. 



Create internships, in cooperation with private 

 industry, so that individuals from developing 

 countries can work directly in U.S. companies, 

 especially those engaged in geophysical studies, 

 exploratory drilling, and development of small gas 

 and oil fields. 

 — Strengthen personnel training programs in the 

 energy field. 



Invite developing countries with significant coal 

 resources to collaborate with U.S. government 

 laboratories on research and engineering on 

 techniques for improving coal combustion and 

 converting coal to liquids or gases suitable for 

 use as fuels or chemical feedstocks. 



Developing countries must continue to seek and 

 exploit their own reserves of fossil fuels, 2 but the 

 greatest long-term prospects for increased energy 

 supplies lie in exploiting renewable resources. 

 Especially important are decentralized technologies 

 which may provide energy to rural areas without the 

 need to develop far-flung electric power grids such as 

 those on which the United States has come to depend. 

 Much of this work in the United states is in the 

 private sector. Some promising technologies have been 

 developed and others are on the drawing boards based on 

 solar energy used directly (e.g., heating, 

 distillation, photovoltaic conversion) or indirectly 

 (e.g., wind, biomass, hydropower) . 



Energy costs are high in most developing countries, 

 and highest in their rural areas. Thus widespread use 

 of solar energy is likely to become economically 

 attractive sooner in those countries than in developed 

 countries which are already committed to existing 

 central generation and distribution of electricity. 

 Expansion of markets in developing countries could in 

 turn accelerate price reductions of technologies 

 potentially applicable in the United States. U.S. 

 consumers, as well as companies manufacturing solar- 

 related products, would be direct beneficiaries of such 

 a trend. 



14. Remote Sensing and Other Applications 

 of Satellite Technology 



U.S. space-age technology is proving ever more 

 useful for tasks associated with development here and 

 abroad. For example, the remote sensing resource 

 satellites — ERTS, and now LANDSAT — are already mapping 



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