Word: solarized
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ERDA and some privately funded research groups are investigating ways to extract oil from shale, tap the energy from the sun and harness the earth's heat. None of these sources is expected to provide the ultimate solution. Combining solar with conventional energy could help cut some fuel use. One problem: methods of storing solar energy are not effective enough to be relied on as the sole source of electric or heating power in the cold winter climates of such areas as New England and the northern Middle West. Prices for getting shale oil or using wet-steam deposits...
...authors really are part of a movement which is no fiction. William Shurcliff, a research associate in physics here, used to know about every solar-heated house in America, but in the past year so many have been built that he has given up keeping track of them all. And Cole thinks that those who are not aesthetically attracted to the idea of building a house that uses its natural surroundings carefully will eventually become attracted to features like solar heating when the price of oil finally makes it worth their while to consider an alternative...
...best alternatives to nuclear power are to reduce energy consumption and develop tidal and solar power, he said...
Other problems stand in the way of large-scale conversion to solar energy. Engineers have yet to figure out effective ways to store heat from the sun for more than three days or to tap solar energy for power production without filling huge tracts of land with reflectors or photovoltaic cells. Even legal technicalities must be resolved before use of solar energy can become practical. A study by Arthur D. Little suggests that the courts might be required to decide whether everyone has an equal right to sunlight, a question that will certainly arise the first time someone tries...
With all of these obstacles yet to be overcome, ERDA does not expect solar power to provide more than 1% of U.S. energy needs during the next quarter-century, or even as much as 25% by the year 2020. But solar radiation may yet become a major means of meeting the needs of the earth for energy. Regardless of how great they may be, the earth's supplies of coal, oil and natural gas are finite. Long after these resources have been exhausted, the sun's golden apples will still be ripe for harvesting...