Conservin

NEW YORK {AP) —
Power companies are
“testing many new ways to
_ bring less-costly energy. to
consumers. .

For example, electricity
can be stored in bricks at
night for use the next day.

The night rate would be
.cheap, explained wW.
Donham Crawford,
president of the Edison
Electric Institute, an
association of investor-
owned electric utilities. .

- “It's an idea that has been ©

used. in European countries
‘for decades. In the morning
the electric load comes back
and the reduced rate is-cut
off, The method has not been
‘used in the United, States
before because electricity

always has been cheap, but
now it is justified.”

The project is being tested
by the Green Mountain
Power Corp. in Burlington,
Vt., and the American’
Electric. Power System

‘which is field-testing it in’
homes in areas from West

Virginia to Michigan. It
works like this:

Two units of an electric
‘thermal storage space-
heating system. are
positioned side by side—a
‘conventional electric
furnace and a British-built
heatstorage furnace
containing a brick-like
refractory core inside a
‘heavily insulated metal
cabinet, -: ,

73-year-old grad

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Ten years ago James B.
Hardwick was turned down
by. the department of
veterans’ afiairs when he
. requested the university

education. due him for his.

Second World War service.
The reason given? He was
too old, ot
Hardwick graduated this
spring from University of
British Columbia with a BA,
majoring in Slavonic
Studies. —
E ne 73, Russian-born, of
_ English parents. He grew up
“in Riga in what now is the
Latvian Soviet Republic, got
his. matriculation at-a
German school there and
found, some years later,

made _ available
pensioners at UBC and in|
the fall he registered as a
full-time student.
_ It was tough’ going but
teachers and fellow students
were more than helpful.
“It was a- challenge all
right,” he said..“‘I had to

’ study constantly. And I

wasn’t a world-beater—just

average—but I never
failed.”
After . graduation,

Hardwick went off to take a
three-week course .in
Moscow under thé auspices
of the National Institute of

. Physical Education and .
Sports.

that his schooling, including - .

commerce, law and
riculture,. was
= @quivalent of first
university. =.
When he was 21 he left for
' England, worked at .the
. Waldorf Hotel, took. night
courses in French and in

ag-
year

April, 1929, came to Canada.
to join his brother in
Alberts, =.

. Hardwick was a 40-year-
old married man, with three
children when he joined the
Canadian Army in 1944. Two
years later he. was out, his

' marriage had foundered .
and he applied and was |

granted the veteran's right
0 a university education -
But before he could take
- advantage of it, he had met
and married a widow with
three children and it
became evident that college
would have to wait. -.

For the next 20 years he-

was busy breadwinning as a
-bookkeeper and accountant’
until; in 1967, a severe heart
attack forced his
retirement, 7 ;

A year later he decided
' the time had come to catch
"up om the long-postponed
university education. When
the department of veterans’
affairs:. turned ‘down. his

-: application, he went-on his

own ‘to. college and grad-

‘uated -with a diploma in -—

recreational leadership.
That whetted his appetite
-for .more.' during the
* ‘Bummer he took advantage
of the free noncredit courses

the.

2

to”

MANY METHODS

g needed electricity

WORKS 16 HOURS

From lip.m, to 7a.m. the
conventional -electric
furnace. heats the home
while the storage furnace is
charging and storing heat
for use the next day. At 7,
both units cut off and for the
next 16 hours, a blower

moves air across the hot.
_ bricks in the storage core.to

provide heat for the home
using electricity only to run
the blower. At lip.m. the
off-peak direct heating and
storage cycle begins anew.

“It’s an idea that would be
a good use of energy if we
become heavily reliant on
electrical cars in. the
future,” Crawford said. At
hight you would plug your
ear into a storage battery.

“If enough people could be
persuaded to use their elec-

tricity voluntarily .at | off--
ty the:

peak times, avoiding
peak hours—9 to 11 and 3 to
7—the outlook could change,
but it would- probably

difficult to get people to do
their wash at night or to
shop at Spm. said
Crawford, whose institute
offers a bocklet that
provides 104 ways to use less

- energy.

SEEK EVEN FLOW -

“As it is now, every timea
company must meet new
demands, it must put in
extra turbo generators even
if they are to be used only a
short time to meat those
demands. The whole point is

at compa: ngage tryin
get more uae ‘of eaistin
equipment. If they could,
the savings could be passed
on to consumers,” —

386.

. Some a tees
successfully. Many people

Turebay

Tests are under way to
control peak use in other
ways with the agreement of
customers. A _. Deéroit
company has a signal that
could turn off electric water
heaters in homes. .

'A Vermont power
company is experimenting
with a radio control system
that might beam into a
home when .the burden
becomes too great. =

‘Such ideas might require |
new meters and. other
equipment which- would be
an added expense...
USING NUCLEAR POWER

“Connecticut is using
nuclear. power

-

are frightened of the -word
nuclear, but a-year’s waste
from one plant represents a
solid cube of about three feet

-by three feet and they. are

thinking about getting rid of.
it permanently,”. explained
Crawford. . - .,

The fuel is controversial
because of radiation fears,
“but you probably get more
radiation from an ordinary
house of masonry.”

In 10 years it is expected
that more than 100 plants
will have been built by 50 or
so of the larger companies, .
he said. mS ,

Meanwhile, — utility
companies are exploring.

Many ‘possibilities+ of |

tapping new fuel sources.
Experiments at Northeast
Utilities. include laser

fusion, which would use a
fuel

source found in
ordinary water, solar
energy, wind power, fuel
cells—devices which

”

4

THE TOWNSMAN; Thursday, July 7, 1977, PAGE 9

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