Page 12 RAiN Nov 1975 ENERGY (continued from page 9 • Solar Heating Papers (Guide, $.Soi Basics, $4; Supplement, $4, Builders Set, $4; Index, $1), from: Norman B: Saunders, l>.E. 1S Ellis Rd. Weston, MA 02193 A phased self-teaching course that be- •' gins at the layperson high school level, proceeds through construction to a high professional level. Questions are answered clearly and comprehensively. Emphasizes use of pa~sive methods and energy conservation before application of more expensive, active solar heating syste.ms. Covers cost _tradeoffs and economics of life ·cycle. Excellent·and ' highly recommended. • • Solar and Terrestrial Radiation: Methods and Measurement, by Kinsell Coulson, 336 pp., 197S, $27 from: , Academic Press' , 111 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003 Detailed professional study of the theory and measurement techniques and instrumentation. Everything you always wanted to ,know about.... Excellent for college libraries. Solar Water Heating, by S. Paige, 30 pp. paperback, $4·from: ' Edmund Scientific Co. S S S Edscorp.Bldg. . Barrington, NJ 08007 A complete guide .to solar water heating including how a basic heater works, effects of dimate on your solar heater and how to compute your solar water heating needs. Full of large charts & diagrams on building solar water heating I systems. An excellent, practical introduction. Wind 100 Wind and Solar Thermal Combinations for Space Heating, by McGowan, Heronemus and Darkazalli, single copies free with business-sized SASE from:' Wind Power Group University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01002 -Sola~ 1ltitud1 and azimuth for selected days of the yur at 40 d•NS north l1titud1. Results of an analytical study to determine the feasibility of a residential heating-system for the northeastern U.S. designed to be power~d or augmented Stirling Engine for Classroom and Research Use, $6S0 from: Sunpower Inc. • 48 W. Union St. Athens, OH 4S701 Useful in illustrating thermal efficiency measurements; effects of various work- ,. ing fluids and pressures, of hot and cold end temperatures; studies of piston, displacer and load dynamics. Model 10-,B,is especially adapted,for solar energy experiments using either high or low temperature collectors. A tool for high school and college labs. . ERDA Chicago RFP (Request for Proposal) List, write: Harold N. Miller, Director Contracts Manag(:ment Office ERDA Chicago Operations 9800 S. Cass Ave. , Argom:,e, IL 60439 Ask to be put on their list for RFPs, after you fill out the questionnaire, which covers solar, wind, bioconver~ion, as well as other areas ERDA is interest- •ed in re~eiving grant proposals on. by a wind generator system, with and without thermal energy storage, and combining these systems with a solar flat-plate collector. Also includes a de~cription of an exper,imental system, "The Wind Furnace Project't built at U. Mass. Presented at 10th Intersociety Energy Conversion Conference (Delaware), 'Energy from the Wind: Annotated Bib- · liography, by Barbara Burke and Robert Meroney, Aug. 197 S, av~abl~ from: Solar Energy Applications Lab Colorado State University Foothills Campus' Fort Collins, CO 80S23 The best I have ever seen. It covers· everything from laymen articles to dense theory, and covers it year-by-year. It is possible to find all the wind publications in any one year if you only know about - when something was published, or you can find out how many items your favorite windpower author has.written, and in what years by looking it up in an author-year index. Well done and thank you! . "Generation of Power from the Wind," by E. Wendell Hewson, in American Meteorological Society BuUet,in, vol. S6, no. 7, July_1_97S, pp. 660-675, single copies free from: Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Oregqn_State Univ. Corvallis, OR 97331 Excellent iQ.troduction to windpower done by Prof. Hewson for the Oregon , State Senate Subcommittee on Environment and Energy. Covers history, the atmosphere, large wind turbines, wind site surveys, power duration curves, aerogenerator design, windmill farms, novel designs, environmental impacts, cost estimates, time -schedule for implementation, and general conclusions. Includes an excellent bibliography. i _, \ \ \ \ \ ~ \ ERDA-NASA 100 KW Wind.Turbine, dedicated Oct. 29, 1.975 at Sandusky, Ohio. Windpower, Part l~Windpower Potential in Selected Areas ofOregon (2nd Progress Report); Part ll-Structura/Aspects of Wind Machines. Single· co.pies free from: • Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 Continued progress is being ma~e at OSU on the question of where to put Oregon's wind turbines, if and when the utilities decide it is time to start pro- , ducing wind electricity. The Columbia Gorge is looking better than coastal sites and would be less expensive since transmission and distribution networks are already in place for hydro-electricity._
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