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Show Solar Power has great Energy potential The following imormationwas iken from the United States department of the Interior lureau of Land Management 'inal Environmental Impact tatement, Chapter VIII, Jternatives to the Proposed ,ction. Solar Energy. Several ap-lications ap-lications for use of solar energy re under development, e.g., olar water heating, swimming ools heating, home heating, olar baking, solar distillation, olar power plants, solar fur-aces, fur-aces, solar pumps and turbines. Among the potential ap-lications ap-lications of solar energy, esidential heating and cooling as the greatest possibility of uccess at the present time, olar space heating and cooling i not as advanced as solar water eating which has been used to ome extent in southern Florida, iowever, there is an increased rend toward solar heating and ooling in many new homes and buildings in the West. At the University of Massachusetts, mherst, William Heronemus and his . colleagues are preparing preliminary designs for a submerged sub-merged power plant in the Gulf Stream. The concept now being considered is a modular design with six turbines in each of two hulls, hooked together. The station would generate about 400 megawatts of electricity. Solar power has great potential for supplying at least part of the . projected demand. It is an ideal approach because it uses , an energy source that is inexhaustible and emissfbn free. Development of this energy source has been given little attention at-tention and proven technology for large-scale -commercial application is limited. A proposal has been made (Schatz, 1975) which would combine residential unit solar heating with geothermal and hydroelectric power production and energy conservation ' measures to achieve Oregon's energy, demands by the year 2000. Jm-, piemen tat ion of such a proposal within the Kaiparowits market area would require additional generating capacity before the proposal could become fully operative. Primary impacts from use of solar energy would be negligible. However, a beneficial secondary impact could be a reduction in conventional energy forecast demands, which in turn could reduce need for new thermal generating facilities. |
