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"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter... It is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age." <ref name="cns-snc">{{Cite
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It is often (understandably but erroneously) assumed that Strauss' prediction of electricity “too cheap to meter” was a reference to uranium fission nuclear reactors. Indeed, only ten days prior to his “Too Cheap To Meter” speech, Strauss was present for the groundbreaking of the [[Shippingport Atomic Power Station]] where he predicted that, "industry would have electrical power from atomic furnaces in five to fifteen years." However, Strauss was actually referring to hydrogen fusion power and [[Project Sherwood]] which was conducting research on developing practical fusion power plants. <ref>Pfau, Richard (1984) ''No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss'' University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, [http://www.amazon.com/No-Sacrifice-Too-Great-Strauss/dp/0813910382/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260580826&sr=1-2 p. 187, ISBN-13 978-0813910383]</ref> <ref>{{cite book
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