Energy Flashes
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March/April 1975
By the Mother Earth News editors
FRED McARVER'S HOMEMADE GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMP is-the inventor says-three times as efficient as conventional heat pumps and a whole lot cheaper to operate, too. The Gastonia, North Carolina inventor says the apparatus is relatively simple and uses only the earth's own sub-terrestrial temperatures to keep his 3,158-square-foot home, toasty-warm.
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AN EIGHTY-SQUARE-MILE "FUEL FARM" is being proposed by two Tampa area scientists. Glen Huppke and Dr. Conard Fernelius say that enough woody plants (sunflowers, sugar cane, cornstalks, etc.) could be greenhouse-grown, burned clean, and reprocessed in a continuous cycle to provide all the electrical power used by the entire Tampa Bay area. According to the two men, the system would be pollution-free, self-sustaining, and less expensive than today's coal-fired system.
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SOLAR-HEATED STRUCTURES are-once again-precisely and comprehensively covered in W.A. Shurcliff's newly released 7th edition of Solar Heated Buildings: A Brief Survey. The updated booklet lists and briefly describes nearly every existing or planned house, school, and commercial building utilizing ole sol for heat. The price is $7.00 (and well worth it) send your money to Solar Energy Digest, P.O. Box 17776, San Diego, Calif. 92117.
WHEN COMPLETED, THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA in Richmond will be the largest solar-heated (and cooled) public building in the world. The huge facility-located on a 45-acre site-will employ 28,000 square feet of roof-mounted black aluminum collector panels.
"ALTERNATIVE" ENERGY SOURCES will soon be our only energy sources according to predictions made by Professor Arvid Herzenberg of Yale University. The good professor says that if present consumption rates continue, oil supplies will be used up by 1988, gas by 1989, and coal by 2032.
CONTRARY TO PREVIOUS REPORTS, the Independent Battery Manufacturers Association, Inc. (100 Larchwood Drive, Largo, Fla, 3354( does not offer a directory of electric vehicles. The organization does, however, sell a Buyer's Guide to starting, lighting, ignition, and generating systems. The booklet costs $3.50 (payable on order) and should prove valuable if you're looking for good battery sources.
