Page 20 RAIN July 1978 which have been syndicated for several major Indiana newspapers. Local radio stations broadq.st interviews with several in electricity as some kind of energy cure-all. But he's·also begun to see change happen. And then, like his old friend, the township trustee who never saw fit to get rid of his windpowered pump in·the first place, tb.ere still exists a strong connection between these folks and self-reliance that can be built upon. Some of it has to do with dollars and sense. Some of it has to do with knowing how to work with neighbors. There is a certain kind of realism in small towns about problems and their so_lutions. It makes them very appropriate places to jump into action in trying to build a future we can live with. of the guest speakers daily for weeks on end. The contact that locally prominent people had with the speakers that.staye_d in their homes has gone a long way in changing local attitudes about about the practicality of a.t. Several people have indicated that they are re-evaluating t~eir pro-nuclear attitudes. In addition, the Frankfort Schools and Library are making plans to remodel their buildings with energy conservation techniques, and possibly solar retrofits. feedback is also coming in from all over Indiana about plans for undergrouqd houses, solar heated libraries and apartment buildings and other energy-ef(icient structures whose builders attended the workshop. In the last several decades, small town people have faced the ·same onslaught of Big Energy, Big Money pressures as everyone else. Rural electrifica6on, bigger farm equipment, land speculation and·too much television from too far away have had a strong-effect on rural America. The once strong ethic of selfreliance is-in sad shape. Bill Caddell admits that it will take a·lot of_effort to 'change co~placent attitudes-like the blind faith Bill Caddell and his hard-working staff at the Frank/ort ·Library have learned a·lot about small town conferences. For those of you interested in more details on Frankfort's E·nergy Workshop, feel free to contact him at the Frankfort Community .Public Library, 208 West Clinton St., Frankfort, Indiana 46041. Be sure to enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. SOLAR Solar/Conservation Remodel Candidates for Seattle City Light; November 1977; 110 pp., available for $8 from: Ecotope Group 2332 East Madison Seattle, WA 98112 In an urban area with established housii:ig stock, a program of solar heating, conservation and energy efficiency must focus on the existing structures with a "retrofit" or remodel approach. In Se- -attle, half the electricity used is in the residential sector. Consequently, the reduction of energy used for home heatl ing, domestic hot water and other low grade heat energy applications is of prime importance-and such uses are the most obvious candidates for solar energy in the Northwest climate. A large portion of the project~d energy growth used to justify an investment in nuclear power is the conversion from oil/gas to electricity for home heating. Solar/Conservation Remodels ... for Seattle City Light is a proposal for a conservation/passive solar heating remodel program for existing .urban housing to work as a: substitute for new central station thermal power plants. .Such a solar/conservation project can serve as a basis for a "conservation" utility. 'fhe report develops the rationale for this and presents the potential for solar energy and super-conservation in a remodel context. To do this, Ecotope analyzed 19 Seattle homes and documents here five preliminary des1gns, with cost information on these designs. An attendant economic analysis is also presented. (Courtesy David Baylon) (Thanks to Malcolm Wells, Jim Laukes and especially Bill Caddell.) -SA The Solar Energy Timetable, Denis Hayes, Worldw~tch Paper 19, $2 from: Worldwatch Institute 1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 From the prime organizer of Sun Day an·d author of Rays of Hope comes this latest update ,on the solar transition worldwide. Hayes proposes a timetable for this conversion based on a 75 percent increase in world population by 2025, when twice as much energy would -be used at twice the current efficiency. Five-sixths of this energy, says Hayes, can be provided by renewable sources, particularly direct solar heat, biomass fuels and renewable forms of electricity. 1016 kilojoules 60 40 20 Fossil fuels would provide the remaining one-sixth, mainly as back-up; while • nuclear electricity would hr phased, out. This timetable assumes a fourfold increase in energy supplies for Third World countries, and would re- , quire massive production of solar technologies, along with significant increases in hydroelecrric and use of the world's forests.fqr wood energy crops. The point is that we don't have to • prove the technologies, nor the obvious • benefits in making this transition; rather we need to begin training people, building equipment and establishing the infrastructure to get things rolling. -SA u ::c ~ u e ~ - " ... u = i;.i ~ 0 r:,:, 1980 1995 2010 2025 Figure 1: Proposed World Energy Production Timetable, 1980-202.5• - •E~ergy sources supplying less than 1 percent of to_tal are omitted. '
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