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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: No doubt getting a supply of energy from atoms is a
theoretical possibility, just as flying was in the time of
Daedalus; probably there were actual attempts at some sort of
glider in ancient Crete. But before we get to the actual
utilization of atomic energy there will be ten thousand
difficult corners to turn; we may have to wait three or four
thousand years for it. We cannot count on it. We haven't it
in hand. There may be some impasse. All we have surely is
coal and oil,--there is no surplus of wood now--only an
annual growth. And water-power is income also, doled out day
by day. We cannot anticipate it. Coal and oil are our only
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