Friday, April 8, 1988

Scientific planning.

A clearly defined science policy is required to challenge the opposition to the introduction of advanced technology to Alaska’s manufacturing, agriculture, and health care. The superiority of task-oriented science methods was proven conclusively by the Apollo Space Program and must pass through a number of successive phases to achieve their greatest efficiency.

The first phase for introducing these methods to Alaskan manufacturing is to advance the frontiers of very high energy-flux density plasma processes for capital goods production. Plasma processing must be complemented with investment in related ceramics, lasers and robotics.

An interdisciplinary approach to agriculture and health care would begin with mission assignments for food irradiation, greenhouse hydroponics and aquaculture, combined with a long-term commitment to laser therapy and optical biophysics (non- linear electromagnetic spectroscopy).

When Alaska has clearly defined science policy creating the cooperation and cultural optimism necessary for successive scientific discoveries, the “science haters” will, once again, discredit themselves into obscurity. There political self-destruction can only become another milepost on the road to prosperity in Alaska.

Charles E. Duncan