FLASHES...ENERGY FLASHES...ENERGY
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November/December 1973
By the Mother Earth News editors
HANDBOOKS ON LOW-COST TECHNOLOGY AND SOLAR AGRICULTURAL DRYERS are being prepared by "those who know." at the Brace Research Institute of McGill University in connection with the Canadian Hunger Foundation and the Canadian International Development Agency.
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We'll be reviewing these handbooks as they become available. In the meantime, the folks at Brace, CHF and CIDA would like to hear from those of you who have developed, built and operated equipment suitable for use in developing areas around the world.
To share knowledge of labor-intensive techniques suited to small-scale applications, write Ron Alward, c/o Canadian Hunger Foundation, 75 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P-5A5. Information on solar dryers should be sent to Brace Research Institute, Macdonald College of McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue 800, Quebec, Canada H9X-3M1. (The CIDA may also be reached at the Brace address.)
A NEW WAY OF STORING LARGE AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY with superconductive magnets is being investigated by Professors Roger Boom, Herold Peterson and Warren Young at the University of Wisconsin, College of Engineering. The project-funded by a National Science Foundation grant—could produce a perfect, resistance-free conductor, says Professor Boom. If so, scientists—for the first time—will be able to store great quantities of electrical power at essentially zero loss until the energy is discharged ... thereby making large scale solar farms (which can generate huge amounts of energy, but only when the sun shines) practical for the first time.
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