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Even while we pursue this inquiry, practical persons elsewhere are hard at work on startling inventions the rest of us will not learn of until tomorrow, their sense of adventure stimulated by the "energy crisis." Someone somewhere is struggling to invent better batteries for electric cars. Someone is pushing toward a breakthrough in hydrogen-powered engines. Someone is trying to unlock energy from some material no one else has thought of. Thousands of bright young men and women are now competing -- to serve humankind; to acquire fame like Edison's; to launch whole new industries, even a new era of world history; and, perhaps, to make a personal fortune, too. Inventors are competing to end the oil age, primitive and polluting as now in passing it appears to have been. The "limits" of the earth are not yet known. Limits are a frame of reference bounded by one time. In the light of another time, today's limit marks a frontier. p. 71