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A breakthrough in the provision of energy from the sun
for the European Economic Community (EEC) could be brought forward by up
two decades, if a modest increase could be provided in the EEC’s
41 ______ research
effort in this field, according to the senior EEC scientists engage
42 ______ in experiments in solar energy at EEC’s
scientific laboratories at Ispra, near Milan. The senior West
German scientist in the charge of the Community’s solar
43 ______ energy programme, Mr. Joachim Gretz,
told journalists that at present levels of research spending it was most
likely that solar energy would provide
44 ______ as much as three per cent of the Community’s energy
requirements even after the year 2000. But he said that with a modest
increase in the present sums, devoted by the EEC to this work it was possible
the breakthrough
45 ______ could be achieved by the end of the next decade.
Mr. Gretz calculates that if solar energy only provided three per cent
of the EEC’s needs, this could still produce a saving of about a billion
pound 46 ______ in the present bill
for imported energy each year. And he believes that with the possibility of
utilizing more advanced technology in this field
47 ______ might be possible to satisfy a much big
share of the Community’s future
48 ______ energy needs. At present the EEC spend about
$ 2.6 million a year on solar research
49 ______ at Ispra, one of the EEC’s official joint research
centers, but other $ 3 million 50 ______ a year on
indirect research with universities and other independent bodies.