Page 14 RAIN Sept/Oct·197 5 ENERGY-Solar continued fr_om page 13 . Soap Lake Community Newsletter, free with SASE from: Greg Higgins, Project ~anager Soap Lake Solar Community 502 E. Main Ave. Soap Lake, WA 98851 Solar heating for individual homes and centralized solar thermal electric systems for large scale generation are presently receiving much attention. Between these extremes lies the effort at Soap Lake and all other solar community concepts such as Grassy Brook Village in Vermont and the new solar suburbs of Southern California. Includes estimates, based on ERDA, HUD and NASA data, of a $35 million yearly solar equipment market by 1985 with 7000 new solar uni-rs per year and a sketch of a proposed environmental monitoring station design by Project Associates and Northwest sculptors Lee Kelly and David Cotter. Sunpaper, by the New Mexico Solar Energy Association. $1 per copy c/o Architects, Taos P.O. Box 1884 Taos, NM 87571 First issue of 500_member plus NMSEA (write Susan Yanda, Rt. 1, Box 107AA, Santa Fe, NM 87501 for new member. information). Contains an ERDA-funded study on design of air-cooled collector/ rock-bin storage solar heating systems, N.M. solar legislation details and another of Steve Baer's solar tales, this one on what Peter Van Dresser calls "The Clothesline Paradox," and reprinted , below. Survey of So~r Energy Products & Services-May 1975, available from: Assistant Public Printer Supt. of Documents U.S. Govem111ent Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 $4:oo. Prepared for,the Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development and , Demonstration of the Committee on Science & Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, by the Science Policy Research Division, Congressional Library' Service, Library of Congress. It will probably be suggested by members of Con~ gress in reply to their large volume of mail inquiries for information on solar energy. Proceedings of the Southeastern Conference on Application of Solar Energy will be available in late October. Write: Ja.mes Babington Univ. of Alabama Press Division of Continuing Education P.O. Box 1247 Huntsville, AL 35807 U.S. Solar Radiation Data. Write: Grady McKay, Chief ADP Services Division Environmental -Data Service-NOAA National Climatic Center Federal Building Asheville, NC 28801 Data from 60 stations across the nation is available on-either an hourly or daily format on magnetic tape, punched cards or listing from the tape. Write above for free reference manuals on hourly (CD280) or daily (CD-480) data and information on ordering. The manuals contain maps, suitable for framing, locating each station. f;. - I ?; _...,....,_,__--J~• ' (f. I ._ Gr'aphic Projection of a Sun Path D1agram Solar Energy Research Institute ERDA will release guidelines and siteselection criteria in October for a SERI. Parties interested .in proposing sites for the facility will have 45 days to submit propo~als. ERDA expects that a site will be chosen early in 1976. At present, it is rumored that Arizona is the prime candidate. However, Congressional pressure will be intense, and ERDA may decide to please the largest n_umber of Congressmen by establishing multiple institutes in a number of states. Aca~ demic and state organizations-interested in securing the Solar Institute within their domains should ensure they receive a copy of the guidelines and criteria by contacting _Ben E. McCarty, Public Information Office, ERDA, Washington, D.C., ph. (301) 973-3335. MITRE Air Solar Heating & Cooling Systems Report, inquire as to availability and price to: MITRE Corp. Westgate Research Park McLean, VA 22101 A research study done for the Sheet Metal Workers Internation~l Association finds Solar HY AC systems using air rather than water have lower initial cost, lower maintenance costs, lighter weight, no freezing, leakage or corrosion problems, and greater simplicity and ruggedness_. (From Sept. 1975 Advanced Solar Ene,rgy Technolq-gy Newsletter, $60/year for 12 issues, 1609 W_. Windrose, Phoenix, AZ 85029) Tilly's Catch-A-Sunbeam Coloring Book: The Story ofSolar Heat Even Grownups Can Understand, by Tiµy Spetgang, illus. by Malcolm Wells, arch., $I.SO each (80~ each for 50 or more) from: Solar Service Corp. 306 Cranford Rd. 'Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 _ A funny, yet highly educational book on solar energy for children 4 to 14. Lovely. Now. all we need is one each on enei:gy conservation, wind power, gardening, recycling and ? and we'll all make it into the next century safely. What did you put in the blank? Maybe we can find it and tell you about it next ~sue. · Additional Solar·Manufacturers [ see RAIN #9]: Solar Research, 52.5 N. 5th St., Brighton, MI 48116, (313) 227-1151: _2nd solar components .catalog now available. (Edward W. Bottum) Solar Energy Services, P.Q. Box 2166, Hendersonville, NC 28739, (704) 692-8762: custom engineering of . . commercial, industrial and residential .solar water heating and building heating and cooling; solar energy education and technical short courses. (Helen P..Bird) Energy Conservation Systems, 327 W. Vermijo Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80903, (303) 475-0332: rigid frame medium temperature collectors. (Peter o: Wood) Chamberlain Corp., Solar Division, 845 Larch Ave., Elmhurst, IL 60126, (313) 279-3600: flat-plate collectors for heating and cooling'. (Allen J. Vancura) Grundfos Solar Pumps Corp., 2555 Clovis Ave·., Clovis, CA 93612, (209) 299-5992: 1-20 gpm, noiseless, compact, lightweight, ·energy saving (.85 amps) Sunpower brand. Heliotrope General, 1869 Hidden Mesa Rd., El Cajon, CA 92020, (714) 4446174: Delta-T differential temperature thermostat for solar heating and . soJar hot water system control; Storex 40 and 65 gal. hot water storage tanks with built-in 20 sq. ft. copper heat exchanger and optional supplementary electric resistance heating. WIND 1975 Wind Energy Conversion Systems Workshop Proceedings, now available for $10 from: The MITRE Corp. Mail Stop W210 Westgate Research Park McLean, V~ 22101 • I
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