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...sure what was being burned to keep them warm. Heat bills were often less than phone bills. Now, they not only know what heats their homes, but millions, particularly those who must use oil, are painfully aware that their bills will nearly double this winter over last year. Solar heating of water and living space has crossed the minds of many. The business of wood stoves is booming. Coal stoves are being rediscovered. Stores selling insulation and weather stripping are doing well. Department stores are advertising insulated "snuggle bags" or "people sacks"?sleeping bags to stay awake in. Sweaters...
Perhaps most remarkable, considering recent taxpayer resistance to any expenditure at all for schools, the Boise school board accepted the most expensive ($3.1 million) of four designs for its Amity Elementary School. It uses solar panels to heat its hot water, but this is the least of its innovations. The greater part of the 26-room school is underground. Heating and lighting costs are about 60% of what would be expected for a conventional school of the same size. The kids seem to love what is now known as the "Idaho potato cellar...
...high priests of Trekdom, trivia quizzes and singalongs and most important, the inevitable all-night parties, frequently featuring "Blog," a rare nectar imported to Holiday Inns and Sheratons across Nielsen-land by the viciously mercantilistic spice barons of Aldebaron IV. And whenever the fans met (for ten solar cycles), they gathered on weekends in huddled masses in dimly-lit hotel corridors. partying, discussing, earnestly analyzing, wearing garish buttons and proclaiming their bizarre beliefs before wearied maids, bellhops and addled television producers. And later they went home and cranked out massive tomes on "The Societal Implications of the Vulcan Ethic." Nightly...
...cost. An artist's rendering commissioned by the town shows a structure about 200 ft. high at its center (enough to clear the town's tallest building, eleven stories high), covering a square mile of Winooski; it is transparent on its southern side, where there are also solar panels to catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile...
Bradshaw said he thinks the nation will use nuclear power and coal as transitional fuels but added that safety considerations will demand a rapid switch to solar power. ARCO is extensively researching different uses of solar energy, especially a plan based on decentralized photovoltaic cells...