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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


Magnetohydrodynamics:

A Promising Technology For

Efficiently Generating Electricity From Coal

If technical problems can be solved, magneto-
hydrodynamics--which  generates electricity
from coal by passing heated, electrically
charged gases through a magnetic field--could
become an important technology for utili-
ties and some industries.

The Department of Energy is just starting
tests of equipment at three new larger-than-
laboratory test facilities and estimates it will
cost about $2 billion through the 1980s to
develop and demonstrate this technology.

To improve the effectiveness of the program,
the Secretary of Energy should

   --evaluate the status of testing at current
   facilities and its effect on maintaining
   the  technology's pilot plant design
   schedule,

   --analyze the advantages and disadvantages
   of alternative types of pilot plants, and

   --establish a way to actively involve poten-
   tial users in the program.

The Department agreed with these recom-
mendations.                                                 111613



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