Home gadgets cut energy waste
By DAN OBERDORFER
Imagine your home snugly outfitted
with crisp new insulation, inexpensive
solar heaters attached to a few
strategically located windows, a clock
themostat turning the furnance on and
off at regular intervals, and maybe
even a low-flow shower head in the
bathroom.
Such an energy-efficient home would
have half the fuel bill of an old
unaltered home.
THAT WAS the message conveyed at
yesterday's Energy Conservation
Seminar in the Rackham Am-
phitheater. The seminar, - part of a
Student Cooperative Education and
Training Institute sponsored by various
nationwide cooperative councils, at-
tracted an audience of about 35 from all
corners of the Midwest and neighboring
Canada.
Rob Strang and Jamie Cameron
traveled through the night from
Kingston, Ontario to attend the con-
ference. "We've got twenty cooperative
houses so we use a lot of energy," they
said. "Each person spends about $140
on fuel during the eight months they're
there, and we figure we can reduce that
substantially. This conference has been
real helpful."
The all-day seminar covered a sub-
stantial amount of technical ground
during its many events and presen-
tations.
DAVID HARTMAN, energy con-
sultant to the University, told the-small
gathering that energy conservation in
the home can come from three broad
categories.
"(It) should come from reducing the
load on your various energy consuming
systems. For example, insulating
your home or turning down the ther-
mostat so the load on the furnace is
reduced," he said.
"Also, you can operate your systems
more efficiently, by tuning your fur-
nace once a year so it works at the
peak of its abilities. Thirdly, you should
consider alternative systems of energy
like solar power," he said.
One of the cheaper, cost saving
devices is a clock thermostat. This
device will turn down the heat at bed-
time, turn it up before morning, and
can even turn it down again during the
daytime hours.
Some people don't like the heat tur-
ned down at night, and sometimes it's
not convenient, but a clock thermostat
can save a homeowner tremendous
amounts of money in their fuel bills,"
.Hartman said.
Hartman gave the hardsell for
another little gadget which would save
the consumer money from his water
bill, the low-flow shower head. "I have
a fetish for these things," he said. "The
water comes out feeling like it's a sharp
even spray, not like needles. It may
take a little longer to get the soap out if
you have long hair, but it should cut
down the water you use in the shower
by about a half. That translates to about
$12.50 for the average person per year."
Other energy saving devices include
insulation for :your hot water
heater-which now probably loses one-
fifth its heat creating energy to the out-
side air-dishwashers without electric
heat dryers, and fluorescent lights.
Microwave ovens are another good
,idea.Regular ovens use only 10 per cent
of their heat in cooking, the rest helps
make the kitchen seem like a
sweathshop, says Hartman.
Collins' prison transfer imminent
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Michigan student and former Cen-
terline High School athlete, was convic-
ted of Beineman's murder but never
implicated in the other six attacks.'
Jackson attempted to transfer Collins
in September because of his alleged
role in the escape of Jackson inmate
Robert Taylor. Collins allegedly was
supposed to escape along with Taylor
until a broken foot, suffered during a
softball game, thwarted his plan. In the
revised scheme, Taylor supposedly was
to return for Collins in a helicopter.
JACKSON authorities said that
Collins confessed to participating in
Taylor's sucessful escape, on two
separate occasions. Collins later denied
any participation, and is said to have
told prison authorities "I'm into the
drug business here, but I didn't have
anything to do with (Taylor's) escape."
Collins' transfer was blocked on Sep-
tember 19 when his attorney got a
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restraining order from Judge Falahee.
The judge heard the arguments of both
sides on Friday.
"The judge decided that we have the
authority to move him," deputy Utess
said. "We have the right and authority
to transfer people in and around our
system."
UTESS SAID Collins' main argument
against the transfer. was that he
wouldn't be able to .work on a forth-
coming book about his life. "He had as
much opportunity to work on his book
here as he'll have at Marquette," Utess
said.
Collins' attorney, Ricardo Arcaro of
Jackson, had also expressed fear
Collins may have "enemies " at
Marquette, but wouldn't elaborate.
"We know of none," Utess said.
Utess said Collins argued the
Marquette prison was too far from his
newly retained Detroit attorney and
from his' mother, who lives in Cen-
terline. "This is true for the other 700
people who are at Marquette also,"
Utess said. "There is adequate bus,
train, boat and air transportation ser-
vice. John would have access to all
libraries and the mail service to write
home."
Utess said Collins' role in the
breakout "was not tantamount" to the
decision to allow the transfer. It was,
accoring to Utess, a question of whether
the Michigan. Department of Correction
had a right to transfer who they wanted
where, they wanted and when,
"We had the authority to move him,"
Utess said. "There was nothing to
preclude his transfer."
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The New York Times quoted
Kurger yesterday as saying in an
interview that President Carter was
partly to blame for the situation
because his "holier-than-thou" sup-
port for South African blacks encour-
aged them to believe "the Americans
are backing us to the hilt, whether we
do it peacefully or by violence." He
was uoted as saying further: .
"ONCE PEOPLE get the idea that
a large country like America is
backing you up, obviously it's an
incentive to people who want virtual-
ly the same thing by violence that
President Carter is calling for by
peace."
The anti-government Rand Daily
Mail wrote in an editorial yesterday
regarding the reports on which
Kruger said he based his action:
"This was a series of secret trials
conducted by unknown men in an
unknown place at an unknown time
- with punishment meted out on the
basis of their unknown evidence."
JOHN DUGARD, dean of law at the
University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg, said the findings
could not be seen as reliable because
the investigating committee "is able
to ignore the elementary principles
of justice in factfinding."
Helen Suzman, an opposition par-
liamentarian for 25 years, said, "Mr.
Kruger's credibility is not such that
one will accept what he says about
the actual findings of the committees
unless he is prepared to publish
them."
The independent magazine, the
Financial Mail, wrote that Kruger
may ban and detain who he likes,
"but one thing neither he nor anyone
else will succeed in doing is banning
black South Africans' loathing of
apartheid and their determination
to be free of it forever.'
Kruger, a 60-year-old former mine-
worker who became a lawyer by
studying at night, said he had to take
the stringent measures because of an
imminent danger to the state.
"The thing has become such a
polarisation situration that violence
could flare up now at any momen*',
and we decided to stop it," Kruger
said.
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