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...Solar energy is also clean and safe. "Cleanandsafe," as solar advocates will tell you. They imply, or may even tell you outright, that nuclear energy is dirty and dangerous. In elementary school, those were fighting words for me, since my father designs nuclear fuel. I viewed any attack on nuclear power as an insult which could be settled only with a fistfight at recess...
Discussions about energy policy, even among friends, can quickly become emotionally charged since the issue involves fundamental values. Solar advocates believe in walking to work, eating organically grown foods, and living simply, like Thoreau. Proponents of nuclear energy believe in General Electric, General Motors, and General Foods...
...next stop on our morning tour, Jim Serdy pointed to the roof of a house which is completely covered in solar panels. "This started as an attic renovation, and sort of evolved...
...solar professional; he installs solar heating systems in houses. Jim spoke to us in the technical language of solar contracting. He spoke of structural attachment points, insulated thermal blinds, weather surfaces, triple glazed window systems, release temperature, mean-radiant temperature, stick-framing, R-factors, maintenance-free super-insulated maximum-efficiency collectors, and unstratified heat...
...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...