Energy we can live with: approaches to energy that are easy on the Earth and its people

Book · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:7340939

Wallace, D ^[1]

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1. ed.

The book is an assemblage of articles from Organic Gardening and Farming, Environment Action Bulletin, and Compost Science. The eighteen articles of Part I gather together information on the more obvious alternate forms--the ones that have been making a lot of headlines lately; solar energy, methane gas, and wind power. It also explores some of the more provocative ideas for various energy sources, like getting alcohol from cellulose and burning it as fuel, turning sewage wastes into flammable ''refuse derived fuel,'' and the potential of plain, old, human muscle power. Because interest in energy is so closely related to food production and because food is so vital to all, both on a personal and a global survival level, the second section concerns itself with energy and agriculture. Economics and efficiency of low-energy farming methods, the advantages of regional food markets, and the feasibility of using draft horses again are investigated in six articles. The last part puts a personal perspective on energy in fifteen articles. It is here perhaps, that alternate approaches to energy production and use are most real because none of them require advanced technology or years to make practical. Greenhouses that grow food in wintertime with the help of the Sun are available now, as are wood stoves, compost piles thermal underwear, and bicycles. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 7340939
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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