Page 18 RAIN January 1,979 WOOD Handmade Hot Water Systems, by Art Sussman and Richard Frazier, 1978, 91 pp., $4.95 postpaid from: Garcia River Press P.O. Box 527 Point Aren3:, CA 9 5468 A very clear and comprehensive how-to book on design, construction and installation of alternative energy water heating sys_ttms through use of wood stove and fireplace heat in winter months and solar heat in summer months. Its clear explanations, plans and illustrations make the information useful to anyone ready to kick the habit and get off the mainline power grid with an inexpensive do-it-yourself approach. The question of rapid creosote build-up that immediately comes to mind in woodstoves is spoken to here-however we want to stress that a constant check on chimneys and stove pipe is an essential fire safety requirement when this type of system is in use. Creosote buildup can occur by the air cooling effect of wa,ter heating coils within the stove pipe causing its condensation in the interior. The only question ,that I'd like to see .answered in this book, as my approach is definitely that of a novice; is how to combine the woodstove and solar he·ating components to one water heater as a storage tank, or if it's essential to have two tanks for each , system. Nevertheless, it's a valuable source of information. -LS * CCNPRESSION FtTn._,~ IA)l'n4 Sl:Ar ~1.1.£0 OVT ,o AL.WW CClPf"l<R PIPE "l0 ~ il'IRIJ, 8 ' ~E TANK. Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa, 1978, We hear daily in the mass media of $3.80 from: death. Plane crashes, mass suicides, Jim Peck War Resisters League • 339 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10012 earthquakes, war. Numbers, .statistics, . logistics. But never a sense of the realities beneath those glib and irrelevant surfaces. The grief, anger, heartaches, despair and heroism. The true impacts - on the lives of those affected. in a touchingly powerful way, this book 'I-'f 00, YOO .... HANADA'S SOICIDE IS ALL BECAUSE OF 'f()IJ/ l --------------------------------------
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