Energy Efficiency in the Midwest: What is Needed, what is Being Done : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, January 22, 1982

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Page 49 - Thank you very much for your kind attention to these remarks. If there are any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
Page 30 - ... United States, but the salinity is rough on the farms. They have to let all the water out of Red Bluff Dam sometime in the winter simply because the degree of the salinity is so high, and this project will provide for the drilling of wells to stop some of that outpouring of salt into the Pecos River. I want to thank the chairman of the committee for the opportunity to appear in behalf of these important projects. Senator DWORSHAK. A year ago you had both floods and droughts in Texas. What is...
Page 77 - Thank you for the opportunity to testify. I will be glad to answer any questions that you may have.
Page 58 - CXir load increased in 1985 by 9.2% and in 1986 by 6.5% because of a new industry and additional expansion of the other three largest industries. Our gas usage has also decreased appreciably during this same period. Based on degree days, our residential heating customers are using 38% less gas now than 12 years ago. With 80C to 85C out of every dollar collected from natural gas customers going out of state, conservation is keeping at least- $580,000 per year within our community of 4000 people! In...
Page 193 - Deere' s program are: 1. Top Management Support 2. Energy Audit 3. Full-Time Energy Coordinators 4. Local Responsibility and Control 5. Measuring the Results 6. Energy Ethic 7. Feedback Top Management Support is required to obtain the manpower to start and maintain the program. The manpower is needed to chart the course of action. The money will be provided when management sees the potential. Energy Audits are required to determine the areas with the highest potential for savings. These audits, at...
Page 199 - In other words, we are quite familiar with the principle of promoting more efficient appliances, even when the cost of energy was relatively low.
Page 38 - Having made the determination that most furnaces are oversized and that most chimneys are too large, we began field tests of five different devices on the heating systems of approximately 200 volunteer Company employees.
Page 102 - Trombe-Michel wall) — a masonry exterior wall (south-facing) that collects and releases stored solar energy into a building by both radiant and convective means. This wall is insulated from the exterior by glass or other transparent material.
Page 31 - I am sure that the vital national interest in conserving gas, along with other forms of energy, requires no demonstration. In the midst of...
Page 47 - ... supply needs. If there is no underlying gas supply there is nothing to conserve. Conservation needs to be added to effective efforts to maintain adequate natural gas supply.

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