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...risks involved in shooting nuclear wastes into solar orbit are nothing compared with leaving them here on earth...
...accepted proposals in just about every energy field, including wood, wind, solar, biomass, hydropower and the general area of conservation. To get money, however, the applicants must first go through a rigorous winnowing process that is designed to eliminate technically unfeasible ideas and those that do not meet regional and state energy needs. The maximum available to any one scheme under the awkwardly named Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program is $50,000, but grants as small as $200 will be made. The 800 or so lucky applicants will be culled from 19,329 proposals received by the DOE, with...
...been judged worthy of nationwide promotion. As part of the 1977-78 pilot program that distributed $1.3 million in four Western states, Guam and the Pacific Islands trust territory, the DOE gave Stanley Mumma of Arizona State University $11,000 to develop a curriculum for teaching people to build solar hot-water systems for their homes. Using methods learned in the course, more than 1,500 residents of the Phoenix area have installed solar systems. The DOE will now spend $1 million to establish the same kind of workshop in every other state...
Though the DOE grants have spurred energy innovation, the program has also collected its critics. Last December Senator William Proxmire awarded his monthly Golden Fleece award to the DOE for spending $1,200 to build and test "an above-ground aerobic and solar-assisted composting toilet," an outhouse elevated 2 yds. or 3 yds. above ground, where the human waste is caught on a wire mesh and exposed to sunlight to aid decomposition. Developer Douglas Elley of Lupus, Mo., plans to market his invention as "The Skycrapper," and he proudly praises "the pleasing and aesthetic moments of meditative contemplation...
...cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about 160 days, another rocket in the nuclear waste package would be fired by remote control, this time braking the container and letting it settle into a permanent solar orbit between earth and Venus...