Israel’s development problem is the application of “high grade brains to low grade resources, “Sir Benjamin Lockspeiser, chairman of the all-European commission on atomic power, told a press conference here this week-end. He summed up the results of a week-long meeting of the Israel Government Technological Advisory Board, consisting of foreign and Israeli scientists, engineers and research leaders.
As an example of what he meant by the application of high grade brains to low grade resources, Sir Benjamin, one of Britain’s foremost nuclear scientists, revealed that Israeli chemists had developed a new and cheap method of chemically increasing the concentration of manganese in low grade ores. He was unusually cautious about Israel’s plans for expansion of potash production, even questioning whether current potash production methods were profitable.
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