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Show Page 22D-T- HK HERALD. Frovo. Utah. Thursday. November 22. 1979 re mz$-v- y Kj i r i -- i; 7 rn I h ; ' - ... ABRAHAM AMBRIZ, I, of Suoland Park, N.M., right, shows a little more Interest than his brothers, Abel Jr., S, and Max, 2, In the family backyard solar water heater. It's part of a $400,000 Ssi Sillii Border. U.S.-Mexi- v. Liliti:C families living along the low-inco- I federal solar demonstration program for Of N.M. Farm Workei Solar Heat Warms Modest Home - A SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (UPI) farm worker's family in southern New Mexico will bask in the sun's warmth even at night this winter, thanks to a demonstration project designed to show solar power can be used economically even in the most modest home. During the day, the sun will beam through thick, clear plastic covering the front wall of Abel Ambriz's house in Sunland Park on the western outskirts of El Paso. The rays will hit a black panel behind the plastic, to warm a layer of air that circulates into the house day and night. In summer, when the sun follows t different path, its rays will not strike the socalled Trombe wall as directly. Then the heat generated will be dispelled through outside vents to cool the two-roo- m house. The Ambriz's sole sources of space heating this winter will be the Trombe wall and radiation from a conventional cook stove. A backyard solar water heater keeps water "muy caliente (very hot)," Ambriz said in Spanish. His solar clothes drier is an clothesline. Ambriz said materials for the solar energy systems cost only about $900. The federal government picked up the tab as part of a $400,000 solar demonstration program for families living in what sociologists say is the poorest region the United States, along the 1,933-mil- e border. The project is directed by the New Mexico Solar Energy Institute, a state agency on the campus of New Mexico State University in nearby Las Cruces. The institute is the prime contractor for the program that the Southwest Border Regional Commission funded for communities in the four border states of New Mexico, Texas, Arizona low-inco- U.S.-Mexi- and California. Edward Lumsdaine, institute director, said the program is designed to encourage businessmen to manufacture solar energy systems. "The program hopefully will show that it can be profitable and also employ a lot of people " Lumsdaine said. By the end of the program's first housyear, Tierra Del Sol, a ing corporation in Las Cruces and one of several program subcontractors, had completed its part of the program and only used half its $20,700 allocation. The quality of the seven water heaters and five Trombe walls that Tierra Del Sol built for families such as Ambriz's so impressed institute ofnon-prof- it ficials they are drafting a contract extension to allow the corporation to build more such units. In addition, the Dona Ana Solar Energy Society of Las Cruces has conducted seminars to explain to laymen in New Mexico and adjacent Mexico how the sun can be used as an energy source. The society has built five window unit water heaters, five other solar water heaters, five Trombe Walls and a greenhouse, says Roger Farrer, head of the institute education and informa- monitored for a year, using a $10,000 grant from the National Center for Appropriate Technology and at least $2,000 in institute funds. The institute will determine how much water heating comes from the sun and how much from backup natural gas water heaters. By comparing total energy consumption in the four demonstration houses with four similar conventional units, the institute will determine how effective the space heating solar systems have been, he added. . Texas participants all in Brownhave completed their border sville solar program projects. A total of 73 houses in the state's southernmost city were fully insulated and then given solar water heaters. Electric-powere- d or attic vents were installed in 30 houses. Vine canopies were constructed to shade several residences during the summer, officials said. In Bisbee, Ariz., six youths were trained in solar heating and cooling systems. One water heater had been completed at last report. Trainees in Bisbee were building seven "bread-box- " solar water heaters. They look like large bread boxes with black interiors. Tanks, often obtained from old conventional water heaters, are placed inside the boxes to hold the water as it heats. In Somerton, Ariz., another six youths are being trained and 10 of 20 wind-operate- d . tion division. The greenhouse provides both space heating and gardening space, Farrer said. The Dona Ana group also has added a Trombe Wall to the community center in the village of San Miguel, N.M., in cooperation with the National Association of Farm Workers and 70 volunteers. The Las Cruces Public Housing Authority plans to install solar water heaters in at least four housing units, Farrer said. Drums of water will be used to collect solar heat in winter. Farrer said the results of the public winiwiuMui-umiiL'- !r. aBaMCTjjl-li- m "' - WASHINGTON (UPI ) Ralph Nader shocked a Senate panel this week by suggesting that Sen. "Jakt Gam's wife of 19 years would not have died in a 197f crash if the auto industry had heeded appeals foi ' WATCHING THE FAMILY PETS at play on the grounds of Balmoral Castle In England are ; "w ' '"n'h a V:-- '''"- 1 Andrew; Queen Elizabeth U; Princess Anne and her son, Peter. (UPI Telephoto) - II s - ALL LI Oil t.V 3 FIXTURES l?BlllSll6tnSDES TO FIT THE FIXTURES YC'J VCZZUMl Oiiundion Sledtic Supply Blair R. Hamilton 553 North Main Phone SPANISH FORK 798-843- NORTH MAIN NOW THR0U6H CHRSTMAS...COME VllSIT SftNTO EVERY MOM., AMD FRIDAY.. , Clip this section end 1 : FEDERAL - 290 t Ratall" O O At 10:00am., FIRmUCKwill deiw Santa Claus to his Msfmas Headquarters- "Wholtula o .i lG Sidney, Neb. "It was in Utah," said Nader. ... under Nadar said the accident was a "roll-ove- r collision, and that level of crash a should be survivable." . "I think it's incredible that you would bring up a my wife of 19 years," personal tragedy here Gam told Nader. "What kind of a human being are you?" ' "A human being who'd like to see more lives accidents are saved," responded Nader. "Roll-ove- r the ones that are the easiest to survive if a car is properly designed." "Never in my 13 years in public office have I been confronted by anyone who brought that sort of thing out in a public hearing." Gam said. "You're not going to deny me the right to be touched by the death of your wife." Nader said, "and you're not going to deny me the right to say that kind of personal tragedy could have been prevented." rg; Prince Edward; Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir apparent; Prince members of the British Royal Family. Family members are (left to right): the Duke of Edin- - , r mmmmMl!MmimM'u heaters have been assembled as part of the program. In El Centro, Calif., program funds were used to provide solar heating for a health spa for the elderly. In San Bernardino, the Westside Community Development Corp. has completed about half of 36 planned bread box solar water heaters for farm laborers living in Indio, Calif. Panel of Senate Shocked by Nader , i planned "flatplate" solar water housing solar systems will be safer cars. The consumer advocate raised the subject during a confrontation with the conservative Utah Republican at the Senate Banking Committee's hearing into aid for the ailing Chrysler Corp. Nader urged the committee to link federal loan guarantees to Chrysler with requirements for the production of safer, cleaner and more cars. Committee member Gam, long a critic of Nader, opened his questioning with a personal attack on the consumer advocate. Gam accused Nader of showing "no objectivity" and engaging in strong-arlobbying tactics that "scare the hell out of most of my colleagues." Nader responded with a pointed reference to the 1976 crash that took the life of Gam's wife, Hazel Rhae. He suggested that safer cars "could have headed off the personal tragedy of certain senators." "That's one of the cruelest statements you've ever made," said Gam. visibly shaken and his voice heavy with emotion. "Yes, my wife died in a car accident and left me with four kids." "She could have been saved," replied Nader. Gam then challenged Nader to recite the details of the crash he professed to be familiar with a accident on Aug. 17, 1976. 12 miles east of single-ca- r ' ....... 330 t 5-3- 0 PM . FREE: HOME OFFICE 55 South State St. Salt Lake City. Utah 5 SPAASM FORK 290 NO. MAIN S |
