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ICE CONDITIONING: Issue 68's Energy
Flashes mentioned the ice-filled basement as a possible
replacement for conventional air conditioning. As it turns
out, the concept will soon be a reality: Engineers are
beginning work on an ice pond that'll be incorporated into
the cooling system of a 130,000—square-foot
Prudential Insurance Company building now under
construction.
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NUCLEAR EVACUATION: After evaluating
estimates of the time necessary—in an
emergency—to evacuate persons living within a
ten-mile radius of atomic power plants, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission has classified 17 of the estimates as
"poor". The NRC rated 27 plants' reports as "adequate", and
five were termed "excellent". (Two of the facilities didn't
even bother to respond.)
RENEWABLES NEWS: The National Solar
Heating and Cooling Information Center has now become the
Conservation and Renewable Energy Inquiry and Referral
Service (CAREIRS) and is offering information about energy
conservation and such technologies as wind, biomass,
photovoltaics, ocean and solar thermal, and more. The
service operates from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. eastern time, and
the toll-free numbers are 800 / 523-2929 for the
continental U.S., the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico . . .
800/462-4983 for Pennsylvania residents . . . and 800/
537-4700 for Alaska and Hawaii.
CATTAIL FUEL: Cattails can yield up to
1,000 gallons of ethanol per acre, as opposed to the 200
gallons possible from corn or 640 gallons from sugar cane,
according to an experimental study called the Aquahol
Project. Furthermore, the plants can be grown in swamps and
thus do not compete for agricultural cropland.
TOP SEED: After successful tests using
peanut oil to fuel diesel engines, Gold Kist (a large
agricultural concern) is forging ahead with research on
other vegetable oils-such as cottonseed, sunflower,
linseed, and coconut—as replacements for
petroleum—derived fuels. Gold Kist says the results
are promising because the plant's protein meal can be used
as food after the oil has been extracted.
