WOR~ . J • Alaska Blues, Joe Upton, 1977, $14.95 from: • Alaska Northwest Publishing Co. Box 4-EEE Anchorage, AK 99509 What is it that pulls a person into a hard and dangerous life? In part it's the reward of challenges overcome, of a life where the highs are higher as well as the lows being lower. It's a life of intensity -hair-raising blacks and ecstatic whites, instead of the drab greys of security. ·It's a love of living, not of avoiding the always riskfull opportunities of life. It's powerfully and directly communicated in this journal of words and pictures from a year's commercial fishing along the Inner Passage of Southeastern Alaska. It's easy to see why it gets into a person's blood. -TB , .-WOOD Wood Energy Enthusiasm Picking up Speed Efficiency has finally become the key word in wood stove sales outlets. Even unknowledgeable salespeople are selling efficiency ahead of "beauty or decor," because it's adding commission dollars to their paychecks. Some of the smart industry salespeople are promoting wood stove maintenance and cleaning. Efficiency benefits of a clean, tight stove and chimney may exceed 30 percent of the stove's heating capacity. The insulating effect of i/8 inch of soot or carbon causes a dramatic heat loss due to less radiation and conduction. Domestic manufacturers are making serious attempts to re-enter the effi- , ciency ball game, which they abandoned to the Scandinavians many years ago. The short-lived welded stove is finding a soft market. High quality cast iron stoves are again demonstrating their value as the two-to-four-year-old welded expediencies are developing air leaks around their warped doors and frames. Many problems associated with wood fuel are disappearing. Increased efficiency is reducing the particuhte pollution which affects a few people. Studies now indicate that wood fuel can be feasibly grown as a crop. In many areas, less than two acres of ground will heat a 1,000-square-foot house with only medium insulation. -Bill Day . . . ~ ·: • I • • • · -~ ·- · -~ -·~-~ WIND The American Wind Energy Association now has a Washington office out of which federal wind energy legislation and program will be monitored and proposed and from which the AWEA Research Corporation, modeled after the American Institute of Architects' similar set-up,-will do.consulting work under contract to private and public organizations. Phones will have been installed by the time you read this, so check with the D.C. information operator for the:. American Wind Energy Association 1717 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Suite 1111 Washington, DC 20036 Ben Wolff of Windworks is the Executive Director of the AWEA-RC and AWEA's Washington representative. -LJ June 1978 RAIN Page 3 . . . . . ' ::-: : ~:~=-~-:-"~;_~:<~~';'L~-- • - • • - 1 -from Alaska Blues DOE Small Wind-Turbine Field ' Evaluation Program now being planned for DOE by: Jay Culp, Research Division Asplundh Environmental Services Blair Mill Rd. Willow Grove, PA 19090 ( 215) 784-4237 Under present plans, about 200 small wind machines would be bought later in 1978 from all manufacturers who have commercially available equipment. A "Request for Proposals" will then be issued for anybody who wants to get one of these wind generators for "evaluation." One of the approaches being discussed is that all sites/projects would have to be line interfaced sp that utilities could gain experience with small WECS on their grids. -LJ RAIN's office is.at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Ph: (503) 227-5110. .RAIN STAFF: Tom Bender Lane deMoll Joan Meitl Lee Johnson Linda Sawaya Steven Ames [ _....___ _ _ _Ty--=-·.:....pe_se_tt_in.:::....g:_Ir_is_h_Se~t~_r_Pr_in_tin_g:._:T_i_m_es...::...L......;ith~o_ _ _ _ _ _ _· ,1!
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