Page 8 ENERGY Continued from page 7 Solar Energy Bills, Oregon Chances of passage of a package of solar energy bills appears good (HB 2200 to HB 2204). The referendum on nuclear power plants (SB 120 and 127) is in the Joint Committee on Trade and Economic Development, where it will need a big push to see favorable action. Four major energy bills have been introduced to create a state energy agency. SB 199, by Senator Hallock, is the most comprehensive, consolidating into one agency the authority of NTEC over power plant siting, the PUC over utility rates and energy curtailment plans, and the Department of Geology over geothermal. Governor Straub's bill, SB 483, is not quite so ambitious. It would keep NTEC's powers in an Energy Facility Siting Council, but with strong influence from the new Department of Energy, whose director would hold one of the three council seats. The PUC would retain jurisdiction over utility rate-setting. SB 291, by Sen. Betty Roberts, would create a new Energy Commission with all new authority. SB 466, by the Energy Advisory Committee, would create an energy agency with broadly defined powers. From: Earthwatch ...---f.- ~~~L '~~~-~:~[:or~!fk'""" I - .__ ·/Jf - I I i 14--- f THICIC WINDOW O,LASS I 11;- J,~~J~~~~?~~t1:'~~~~:~r - - ANDtoOIG30UT • /I I I /lJ r ' I \ ,._~~~L,.~.~~:tt'li,\'-:~ - I \ I j l J I e-n I .-- ~~~~:T ~VIIIILl ... , ... _ ....... , l .. ~, --1 1 -r - WAVE LENGTH, MICRONSt Energy Conference Delphian Foundation Rt. 2, Box 195 Sheridan, Or. 97378 503-843-3 521 - The Delphian Foundation is sponsor- - __::; - ing a series of symposia on such topics as forestry, education, recycling, land use planning, farming and energy. The first conference will consist of day-long roundtable discussion, "Renewable Energy Sources: solar, wind and bioconversion," scheduled for May 3, 1975. Citizens Energy Platform National Consumers Congress 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 A coalition of leading environmental groups has prepared a statement of purpose (with background and bibliographic information) on strategies for energy legislation. ($1.00 donation) Dynamic Conversion of Solar Generated Heat to Electricity Report developed by Honeywell/Black and Veatch for NASA/Lewis Research Center. Points to the optimum development of solar power plants to be in the range of 50 to 200 MW, which, importantly, would lead to development of medium size plants rather than large, centralized solar plants, for maximum energy efficiency. (NASA, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20546). Ouroboros University of Minnesota School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture 110 Architecture Bldg. Minneapolis, Mn. 5545 5 "Architecture, embracing the entire built environment, is directly responsible for over a third of all energy use in the U.S. If we are genuinely concerned with understanding and modifying this, we must examine and evaluate scrupulously assumptions about energy management, energy sources, and pollution control which underly our life styles and present methods of environmental design. Architects and environmental designers must begin systematically to propose the reorganization and modification of land-use patterns, and to reverse their tendencies to produce environmentally costly buildings-those which rely upon our finite world resource savings account. "During the past year 150 students in the Environmental Design class of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of the University of Minnesota have been studying architecture's role in energy conservation through the research, design and construction of a full-scale working experimental dwelling." Here's one of the most well-conceived living-learning education projects in the country. Both working on retrofitting an old city dwelling and designing from scratch an energy conserving house; Ouroboros/East, toward an energy conserving dwelling. 1974. 209 pp. $5.50, postpaid. The syllabus for architecture 1-1002, edited by Dennis Holloway, is a beautiful compilation: energy, architecture, agriculture, light living. It is not available to general public, but persons interested could write to Mr. Holloway (remember, provid~ postage and input). (See also Access) Solar Thermal Energy Utilization Energy Information Center Technology Application Center University of New Mexico Albuquerque, N. Mexico 87131 Bibliography of 2,100 references with abstracts. Space heating & cooling, power generation, water distillation, solar furnace operation, crop drying, cooking. A subscription with update to bibliography $50/yr. Bib. alone $37.50. Solar Energy Society of Canada P.O. Box 1353 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada For what's going on even further north than us; send donation for sample newsletter. Oregon Solar Institute 3764 N. Colonial Portland, Or. 97227 503-281-3396 Incorporated March 10, 1975, OSI is a public interest, non-profit citizens' organization for the encouragement of solar energy in Oregon. Researches the applicability of solar energy for buildings, bio-conversion, solar thermal electricity, and electricity, via photovoltaic, silicon cells. Weekly meetings at Centenary Wilbur Church in Portland. Science in the Neighborhood Community Technology 1901 Que St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 (Note address change). Latest newsletter (No. 3) reports on hydroponics, waste and fish raising projects directed by the group. Also points to other low technology projects elsewhere: New York University School of Education's city science project (providing city people with usable scientific information); catfish farming by member of Dartmouth's Geography Dept.; Stanford University Mechanical Engineering Dept. (Bernard Roth) doing work in alternative technology; Byron Kennard, Ntl. Council for Public Assessment of Technology interested in a trade fair for alternative technology; Michael Diamond, Antioch Law School, interested in studying socio-legal problems of alternative technology ; Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard, is putting out a ~ewsletter on public conceptions of science. Very Large Crude Carriers, Fiction & Facts. Standard Oil Co. Rm. 1165, 225 Bush St. San Francisco, Ca. 94104 A dialogue about the relative dangers of small and large oil tankers. Continued on page 9
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