The world will have widespread fusion power by the year 2000.

The explosion of rage and frustration was Moscow's recognit ion that the Uni ted States of the 1990s was not going to be a heap of postindustrial rubble, but the most powerful economy of the wor ld , as it was more or less at the close of Wor ld War II and dur ing the 1950s. [...] The Taylor technique, which was also used in the successful Princeton ex- periment, uses a low temperature plasma to, in effect, scrub the walls and remove the "loose debris." In the construction of Microtor II, Taylor went one step further and for the first time used a low temperature plasma in the actual construction of the chamber walls. [...] Based on three years of work under the sponsorship of the Fusion Energy Foundation and the weekly magazine Executive Intelligence Review, the model weds the physical and mathematical methods of Bernhard Riemann to the economic analysis of economist Lyndon H. [...] The char- acteristic problem is that under circumstances of no fun- damental technological innovation, the relative finitude of the resource base will always begin to assert itself, even before the critical phase of resource depletion, in the form of lower returns on investment; it will lead to the ap- pearance of overcapitalization, of too-rapid growth in the ratio of capital to labor, and so on. [...] The chart starts with the inputs at the beginning of a reproductive cycle, measured in terms of the tangible consumption by the goods- producing work force, V, the tangible raw materials and energy requirements, CI, and the tangible expenditures on depreciation, C2.