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here. Indeed, such a synergistic effect can result notwithstanding the fact that 

 certain serious roadblocks still face both the American proponents of OTEC and the 

 British proponents of waveconverters such as Salter's — roadblocks which, it should 

 be noted, simply do not arise for waveconverters of the kind recommended here. 

 As I have already indicated above, both the development and the industrial 

 application of ocean wave energy technology, if pursued along those avenues of 

 approach that are recommended here, could receive a tremendous impetus from 

 taking advantage of a unique opportunity which has arisen at this particular time 

 and in this particular country: namely, an opportunity to play a crucial role in 

 promoting the commercial viability of a future United States synthetic fuel indus- 

 try. However, while I believe that to this end emphasis should be placed, in the near 

 term, upon assigning that crucial role initially to waveconverters of the kind recom- 

 mended here, I also believe that, over the long term, equal attention should be given 

 to the development of other ocean energy sources and of certain novel combinations 

 thereof — especially including combinations with the presently recommended wave- 

 converters — for the purpose of ultimately achieving the widest possible application 

 of this country's vast ocean energy resources to its future synfuel industry. 



[Whereupon, at 11:15 a.m. the subcommittee adjourned.] 



