Page 22 RAIN January 1977 employed immediately at lower capital and energy costs than the conventional nuclear or'coal options while at the same time creating more employment within the state for an equivalent amount of energy produced than either nuclear or coal. These alternatives are conservation, wood and wind. In each case the energy production or savings of the alternative have been compared to the equivalent energy from coal or nuclear for the worker years on a thirty year cumulative basis: 1. Conservation: Up to three times the employment at lower or equal capi- ' tal costs and much lower energy costs. · 2. Wood: From four to six times the employme'nt at equivalent capital costs an'q lower energy costs. 3. Wind (without storage): One and one-half times the employment at lower capital costs and equivalent eneJ;"gy , costs. 4. Wind (with storage): Twice the employment at slightly higher capital and energy costs with available technology. . *Solar energy and waste recovery were not studied·in detail but appeared to have favorable employment impacts. (TB) F;xpf":r:imE':J1tn i 18ft dim·M·~t~;,r· 'f<;tnr-~ili . .l w:j.:u1-m.ill with f.("atht1ring blade$ <"Jf>tn-·~ting downwi:od of the tuwe1·. Food from Windmills, Peter Fraenkel, 1975, $8.15 surface, $10 airmail from: I.T. Publications Ltd. 9 King Street London WC2E 8HN England An excellent nuts and bolts case study of the development of low-cost, effective water-pumping irrigation windmills in Ethiopia. Economic, social and engineering factors evolved a Cretan sailwing windmill at a cost of $700 Ethiopian that out-performed imported Dempster pumpers that cost Eth. $2,000 each. A fine account of various options developed and suggestions for further refinements. (TB) The Garbage Book, Canadian Office of Energy Conservation, June 1976, free - from: Box ~ 516, Station C Ott<twa, Ontario, K1Y 4G1 Canada "How to Save Energy and Money by Throwing Out Less"-a good companion to your other living lightly booklets. It's always nice to add new ideas. (LdeM) HERE'S HOW YOU READ ABOVE: 2 3 56 Using Energy Wisely, free from: Mayor's Energy Office 124 W. Ashley St. Jacksonville, FL 32202 A fine information packet on energy that can serve as a good model for · other communities. Outlines energy use in the city, how to read your meters, how to save $600/year using their shuttle bus service, vacationing near to home, a "where-to-call" guide to community services, calculation sheets for home energy use, and flexible working hours the city has instigated to lessen rush hour problems. (TB) Go~d News for those who have been trying in vain to get hold of some of the materials from the now-extinct Oregon Office of Energy Research and Planning (made famous by Tom McCall, Joel Schatz, Bob Murray,.Larry Peterson, Tom Bender, et al.-). Transition, the pioneering 250-page Oregon energy study, and toast, an excellent 11-minute film tracing oil from the well to a pi~ce of burnt toast, are now available. Transition, 1975, $6.95, $9.95 to libraries (20% discount on all orders before February 1) from: Portland Youth Communication Center 1826 N.E. 3rd Portland, OR 97217 and toast, $180 (inquire about rental) from: Earth Chronicles .1714 N.W. Overton Portland, OR 97209 (LdeM) Energy Conservation in Building Design, 1974, $5 from: The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue N.W. Washington, DC 20006 A good beginning primer for architects to gi\i'e a sense of what contributes to the energy use of buildings and where potentials for cons'ervation exist. Doesn't cover any of the reams of detailed, technical and how-to stuff now available, but is still a good Jillace to start for anyone needing an overview not buried in numbers and tables and charts. ('TB) Becoming an Environmentalist, Barbara Clark, 1976, 60 pp., $1.95 from: Cottonwood Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1644 Walla Walla, WA 99'362 Subtitle: "Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Energy Crisis." If you are just beginning the long, slow and joyful process of weaning you and your family from the consumer-oriented /energy-full lifestyle that has become the American Dream, this little book will give you courage and a few ideas. Here's how Barbara Clark and her family did it . : . room by room and bit by bit. Epjoy. (LdeM) WE WILL NOT PUBLISH AN ISSUE OF RAIN NEXT MONTH, so the next issue you see will be about two months from now. It will be Volume III, No. 5, dated February/March 1977, and should be mailed in early March. It's not a double issue (for those of you, like libraries, who need an official count of issues received). Instead of writing and putting together a magazine in January, most of RAIN's staff will be working on the RAINBOOK, and would drop dead or explode if there were also an issue of the magazine to be done. For new readers, the RAINBOOK will be a compilation/updating/tying together of the first two years worth of RAINs. It will be published by Schocken Books, and we need to give them cameraready copy in January. Correction: November 1975, page 3-the price of First Steps in Village Mechanization by G. A. Macpherson is $9.50. Memberships for Everything and Everybody are $5 for one month, $15 for 6 months, $25 for a year anq $100 for a lifetime. ·
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