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WHERE IT'S AT IN NUCLEAR AMERICA. A wall poster that pinpoints all nuclear weapon facilities (manufacturers, deployment, storage), all nuclear power plants (operating, as well as planned), and miscellaneous facilities such as mining, milling, processing, reprocessing, and waste disposal sites is available for 75c from the War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, New York 10012.

TWO ALCOHOL-ENERGY PAMPHLETS AVAILABLE. Alcohol as a Fuel is a five-page paper that you can get for 25c from Small Farm Energy Project, P.O. Box 736, Hartington, Nebraska 68739, and Gasohol ($1.05 from Citizens' Energy Project, 1413 K Street N.W., 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005) describes potential grain and wood alcohol fuels which can replace gasoline.

JOBS POWER AND PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTS will be the result of the nation's largest bio-conversion plant, which is under construction at Lamar, Colorado. The facility will convert 350 tons of manure from feedlot cattle into a million cubic feet of methane gas per day, and is expected to reduce the Lamar power plant's natural gas use by 50%, produce 130 tons of protein supplement from the residue, and provide 70 new jobs.

FREE PLANS FOR SOLAR FOOD DRYERS are being given away by the Utah Energy Office, 445 East 400 South, No. 303, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. Each of the two designs offered can dry any fruit, vegetable, meat, or spice In one day, and will cost less than $50 to build.

"HOW TO PASS A SOLAR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION" is a good tax—tool published by the Connecticut Citizens' Action Group, Box G, Hartford, Connecticut 06106 .... If things go as planned, HUSKS SHELLS AND LEAVES from the Philippine's huge coconut industry will fuel that country's new 1,500-kilowatt generating station .... THE VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR PLANT was shut down yet another time when cracks appeared in a reactor safety mechanism, and the shutdown costs Vermont utilities and consumers $125,000 a day .... In the VALLEY OF TEN THOUSAND WINDMILLS on the island of Crete, thousands of wind generators—a method used for centuries—pump water into the fields .... FORTY-TWO GASOHOL STATIONS (10% alcohol and 90% gas) are now in operation in the country .... The Florida Savings & Loan Office in Lakeland, Florida offers LOANS ON THE INSTALLATION OF SOLAR WATER HEATERS, with a set payment of $25 a month (roughly equal to the energy savings on the system) regardless of the total loan amount .... Solar photoelectric panels power the AIR,CRAFT WARNING LIGHTS on the mountaintop approaches to Saudi Arabia's Medina airport .... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER SAID IT: "Real wealth is knowing what to do with energy."

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