Page 18 RAIN May 1976 Portland RAIN outlets:' 3rd Ave. Smokeshop 4th Ave. Smokeshop 5th Ave. News Anchor Tools & Wood Stoves B. Dalton Book Cellar Brian Thomas Books· The Catbird Seat Curious Dinosaur J.K. Gills, downtown House of Titles J~an Hoops King Harvest Looking Glass Bool<, Store Lovejoy Market Milk & Honey Community Mar~et N.E. Community Market • The Nor'wester Bookshop OMSI Bookstore Portland State Bookstore Powell's Books Reed College Book Store Rich's Cigar Store Skidmore Village Children's Books Varsity Book Exchange Where to buy RAIN, outside Portland: • , Heliotrope Natural Foods, Salem, OR Canyon Way Bookstore, Newport, QR Wy-East Community Food, Hood River, OR ENERGY continued from page 15 Government R&D Report, 12 pp., twice monthly, $8() per year from: William G. Margetts, Publisher Gov't R&D Report MiT Station, P.O. B<;>x 284 Cambridge, MA 02139 March 15, 1976 (vol. 5, no. 6) issue contained comprehensive and perceptive articles on 1) support and opposition to continued breeder reactor R&D funding, 2) debate between Congress and the \Vhite House on conservation, solar, wind, geothermal development, which the citizens' represen~tives favor, vs. more nuclear reactors, deregulation of oil and gas, which the Administration favors, and 3) politics of SERI, the Solar Energy Research Institute. Single sample copies available free. (LJ) Alternative Sources of Energy Route 2, Box 90A Milaca, MN 563 53 $5/yr., quarterly. Long the only source of grass roots development in use of renewable energy, ASE is more and more solid and useful. Now produced quarterly, typeset and with more practical information. Latest issue had good articles on "Icy-Ball" refrigerators, ambient air food coolers, and excellent nuts and bolts column on wind power by Martin Jopp and a supplement to their earlier Spectrum catalogue of ASE hardware (see RAIN, Vol., 1, No. 8, p. 11 ). (TB) Comparison ofEnergy Consumption between West Germany and the United States, by Stanford Research Institute • (SRI) for FEA, NTIS number PB 245652-AS, $5.25 for full report from: Grassroots Bookstore, Corvallis, OR Omphalo.s Bibliopole, Bend, OR Second Hand Book Man, Eugene, QR 1 1 .._ Son of Koobdooga, Eµgene·, OR'• National Technical Information Service Springfield, VA 22151 or, a limited number of free summarie-s are available from: Aardvark Books & Arts, Bellingham, WA The Coniunctio, Tonasket, WA Red & Black Books Collective, Seattle, WA • C~alesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA Whole Earth Truck Store, Menlo Park, CA " Whole Earth Access Co., Berkeley, CA. Market Bookstore, Covdo, CA Real-Live Bookstore, Missoula, MT Natural Magic, Galveston, TX New Pioneer Cooperative Society, . lowa City, IA Environmental Energies, Detroit, MI Left Bank Books, St.. Louis, MO FEA Room 6438 Wash_ington, DC 720461 Insulation Reporter, quarterly newsletter free from: National Mineral Wool Insulation Assoc. 382 Springfield Ave. Summit, NJ 07901 Contains info on developments in home insulation and use, gas and electric- , utility energy-conservation programs; gov't studies, energy legislation aI?,d conservation effort. (LJ) West Germans use -only 2/3 as much energy as Americans: 1/4 the fuel in transportation, 1/2 the energy in home heating, 1/4 for other residential uses such as appliances and hot water heating. The U:·S. uses 40% more energy per unit of production than Germany. According to the FEA, "the large disparity in energy uses between these economically similar countries suggests it is possible for the U.S. to substantial- . ly reduce the ratio ·of energy use to national income, without cutting living standards or economic growth." See "Waste Not, Watt Not," Feb./March '76 RAIN, for further reading. (LJ) ERDA Speakers Bureau, con tact: Office of Public Affairs ERDA 20 Massachusetts AYe., N.W. Washington, DC 20545 202-376-4076 or -4066 ERDA can provide qualified speakers for a variety of forums on subjects ranging from wind energy and fuels from biomass to nuclear fusion, energy ·conservation and solar thermal-electric power. Slides, films and publications €an supplement presentations. (LJ) Solar Collector Manufacturing f\ctivity, compiled by the Office of Data, FEA, every 6 months, free from: National Energy Information Center Federal Energy Administration Washington, DC Contains number of manufacturers, thejr addresses, phones; sq. footage of sol-ar panels produced from J an.-June and July-Dec. of each year; analysis of number of bbls. of oil/day displaced by use of solar collectors in the U.S. Usually has most up-to-date list of manufacturers and hence useful to architect, developer, contractor, homeowner, considering the use of solar heating and cooling. (LJ)
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc4NTAz