Energy - A Solution

About the Book

ENERGY - Its current use and distribution in the United States, and in many other nations of the World, results in three potentially disastrous consequences to society:

Near Term - A cutoff of the oil supplies with an incredible disruption to the nation's economy

Intermediate Term - Global warming would result in climate distribution changes and rising ocean levels, with the destruction of cities and displacement of many hundreds of millions of people

Long Term - The depletion of all economically usable fossil energy forms is that society as we know it would not survive. An "All Electric Society", supplied by nuclear energy, supplemented by solar, is the solution.

These issues, their timing, and the possible, conceivable, solutions to these future consequences are discussed and quantified by the author. The "Intermediate Term" can be delayed with conservation and some new energy sources, and the most serious, the "Long Term", will be solved only by optimizing how we use energy and by the use of both solar and nuclear energy. The logic and public concern of the nuclear option is certainly most controversial and the pros and cons of this debate are developed in the book.

About the Author

Mr. Robert W. Kupp, a graduate Chemical Engineering, began a Nuclear Engineering career in the Special Engineers Detachment at Oak Ridge Tennessee on the Manhattan Atom Bomb Project in World War II. Following that initial nuclear training at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant he joined the Kellex Corporation (later Vitro Engineering) an Architect-Engineering firm as a Process Design Engineer.

In the mid 1950s, Vitro Engineering, with Mr. Kupp as Chief Nuclear Engineer, designed many civilian nuclear project including one of the first nuclear power plants in the US, Indian Point-1, on the Hudson River north of New York City.

In 1960 Mr. Kupp joined with Mr. Sidney Stoller (previously Vice President of Engineering at Vitro) to form a nuclear consulting company to serve the growing nuclear power industry. As a Vice President in the company Mr. Kupp directed much of this consulting work specializing in the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear safety and electrical power generation economics. Supplementing his full time company work he taught nuclear engineering as an Adjunct Professor at New York Polytechnic Institute.

On retirement, he continued as a nuclear consultant on several Safety Review Teams at Hanford Washington and Savannah River Georgia for the Department of Energy. In his spare time he wrote his first book - "A Nuclear Engineer in the Twentieth Century", an autobiography covering not only his professional career but also his home life and an exciting sailing history.