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 (Continued from Page 1) 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 SPACIOUS STUDIOS PROVO, Utah (AP)-The motion pic- ture studios at Brigham Young Univer- sity sit on 22 acres of woods and contain two sound stages, a Western street, shops and a home. There are 16 full-time and five part- time employes in film production in the studios. 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. 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"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." 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