Figure 1. War and peace dichotomy.

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Figure 2. Orders and cancellations of nuclear reactors in the United States.

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Figure 3. Major synfuel events in relation to U.S. gasoline price.

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Figure 4. Long-term oil price forecast in 1980 vs. reality.

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Figure 5. The American way of life.

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Figure 6. Soviet booklet on first civilian nuclear power plant.

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Figure 7. Wonderful future with atomic energy.

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Figure 8. Projections of nuclear power dominance vs. reality.

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Figure 9. Energy in the world of the future.

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Figure 10. Power for progress.

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Figure 11. Comparison of atomic age, coal age, and petroleum age in news.

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Figure 12. Share of primary energy sources in the United States.

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Figure 13. Share of electric power sources in the United States.

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Figure 14. The future of energy is nuclear.

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Figure 15. Comparison of synthetic fuel and nuclear power in news.

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Figure 16. Projections of nuclear capacity growth vs. reality.

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Figure 17. Logo of Great Plains Synfuels.

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Figure 18. Modernist imagination of exponential growth of electricity vs. reality.

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Figure 19. Triangle of technical progress.

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Figure 20. Assumed (hypothetical) economy of scale in nuclear power.

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Figure 21. Nuclear power unit cost vs. scale in reality.

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Figure 22. Recent oil price forecasting fallacy.

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