Informal Directory of the Organizations and People Involved in the Solar Heating of Buildings, Wm. A. Shurcliff, 3rd & final edition, June '77, 243 pp., $9 if check enclosed with order; $11 otherwise. Add $1 for 1st class mail shipping. Outside USA: $11 if check with order, $13 otherwise from: William A. Shurcliff l 9'Appleton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 This directory differs in four ways.from other directories involvin·g solar heating: 1) It is focused exclusively on solar heating. Most directories have no such focus. They include various sti bjects (photovoltaic cells, windmills, etc.) extraneous to solar heating. 2) It includes, besides solar equipment manu, facturers and suppliers, all other categories of organizations and individuals involved in solar heating: federal government agencies, state agencies, universities, colleges, schools, solar energy societies (international, national, local), other professional societies, associations, _institutes, foundations, solar architects, solar engineers, solar inventors, solar home builders, solar home 9wners and occupants, writers, promoters, etc., involved in solar heating. Most directories omit these categories. 3) It includes foreign countries actively involved in solar heating: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, WoopbJ F/?.ftHf::. Japan, Sweden, West Germany and many others. Most directories ignore those countries. 4) It gives much attention to people: people within organizations • and also people working individually. Also, it includes a recapitulating global index of persons. Most directories mention few people and include no such index. This new edition.-the third and fjnal edition- is 36% larger than the preceding edition and contains much revised material and much new material. Highly recommended. - LJ Solar Saturdays: NonLTechnical Happenings for Practical People, 1-5 p~m. each S~turday, Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado, $5 registration in advance or at the door. For details write: The Alternate Energy Institute P.O. Box 3100 Estes Park, CO 80517 AEI, which publishes Solar Utilization News, often recommended here, is following its recent, successful, technical, solar seminars with an enjoyable afternoon of solar basics for laypeople interested in learning how they can use the sun in their daily lives right now. Informal outdoor sessions will cover the energy crisis, passive solar a,rchitecture, home energy conservation, active heating and hot water systems and how to "buy solar?' wisely. Sounds like fun and a fine service at a very fair price. October 1977 RAIN Page 19 Fourth Day of Creation ' MORE SOLAR STORES, Friends of the Sun _Box 725 Brattleboro, VT 05 301 (has info sessions on solar energy for homeowners evenings) ·Home Energy Center, Inc. 49 Highland Ave. Needham, MA 02194 (en~rgy conservation products, insulation installation, rents offices to alternative energy architects and engineers) The Solar Center 62 Towns.end St. San Francisco, CA 94107 (solar design, installation arid hardware sales, with collectors, controls, pumps, glazing, paint, valves in stock) See also RAIN, Jurye '77, p. 24. - LJ Solar distillation is even easier than hot water heating. Put salt or polluted water in a container with a clear glass or plastic cover. Solar radiation enters, changes to heat and is trapped, evaporating the water which then condenses on the inside 1 (underside) of the cover, and the residues (minerals, dirt, salt) are left behind. The distilled water can be collected for drinking, cooking or filling wind-generator batteries. However, :•. "••••.•II.:'• •,a:t ,•:•I . 'tUti-;; 'g'd;;~~; • • • •.•.·.. • . ,,, , .·::_',r,(;_a()c,ff (81ATYlltl<. only small quantities of H2O\are produced (25-30 gallons per sq. -ft. of still per year), and so this method is suitable only f9r small community applications where other water sources are not available. .·.•. :•·,•:•:-:-:•:•:•:•·• • fJDL-'(7/f£Nl) #01..t' 5' FRkGKl5H /.Jft-f6R., /"-12. ., Pt?£ fJ SOLAR DISTILLATION Every so often here at RAIN we notice a pattern of three or The best plans are from Publications Dept., Brace Research Institute, MacDonald College of McGill Un;v., Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec HOA lCO Canada. They include: • How to Make a Solar Still (Plastic Covered), dimensional drawings with text,.13 pp., 1965 (revised 1973), $1.25. Simple Solar Still for the Production of Distilled Water: four letters or calls the same week asking the same thing. When • that occurs in a "void" we haven't checked out lately, we Technical Report Tl 7, 6pp., by )'.A. Lawand, 1965 (regather up all the best print and microfiche resources in 9ur library and do a little bit of research _on what the state-of- .knowhow-and-application is in that "void." Then we try to interpret the meaning of what we find to a. t. Recently the fifth letter wanting plans for solar distillers came in, so here goes. The best directory to such plans is the Volunteers in Asia A. T. Sourcebook, by l<!en Darrow and Rick Pam, $4,.00 from V.I.A., Box 4543, Stanford,-CA 94305. vised 1967), $1.25. • • Plans for a Class and Concrete Solar Still: Technical Report No. T58, 8 pp. of text plus two large blueprints, by T.A. Lawand and R. Alward, 1972, $4.50. • Installation of a·solar Distillation Plant on ile de la Gonaue, Haiti: Internal Report No. 167, 10 pp. plus 10 photos, R. Alward, 1970, $1.25. Be sure to ask for their publications list. -LJ
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