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Thursday, December 4, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Solar energy helps heat fraternity
Two units for collecting solar energy were installed this week on the roof of the building.
Bob Collister, Sedalia, Mo., senior, said he and Bill Dressler, Kansas City, Kan., senior, built the units as part of a special project for an architecture class. Collier校生, at which both he and Dressler live.
Dressler said that both units use the nun's rays to make heat but that they each gather heat with one other.
When the sun hits one of the units it heats water stored in a tank. The water is blown over a heat exchanger, Collier said, which creates hot air for heat.
The other unit stores energy as direct heat, he said. The sun's heat warms these cooled water containers. These coords are kept within the unit and is automatically blown out when needed.
Dressler said the advantages of solar heat were that it was a form of natural energy and that it had few pollutants. He said. He also added that it has a major disadvantage of solar units.
"The initial cost of a solar unit is too high for an individual," Dressler said. "Even corporations have saved $100,000 per year by switching to solar energy."
once they were mass produced. He said this
warmly, especially in Arizona and California and Colorado.
The units built by Colliser and Dressler cost only about $100 each but Colliser said they weren't big enough to heat the whole house.
By next year, the Triangle house could be using about 50 per cent solar energy, but it won't have to do that because water units on the roof that would utilize an already existing boiler and radiator system. By converting to solar energy, the Triangles can cut their gas heating bill in half,
It will cost about $2,900 to convert the house to solar energy, Drasner said. He also recommends installing a photovoltaic system.
architecture and engineering fraternity, the fraternity's alumni would be interested in joining.
Collier said solar energy was being looked at as an alternative power source for several reasons. The units can collect and store the electricity that is needed for each day during that day, he said.
Solar energy can also be used for air conditioning, he said.
He also said the units could actually collect more energy in the winter than in the summer because the sun is closer to the earth.
Other novelties such as solar ovens and solar coffee pots have also been developed. Collister said, but these are mostly inefficient.
He said costs of solar units would drop
Howard Fox, associate professor of pediatrics and director of neonatal medicine at the Med Center, said the van would be staffed with a neonologist (doctor for newborn babies), a neonatal intensive care nurse and a driver trained to maintain equipment and work with very ill babies.
Jaystork will provide on-site intensive care for acutely ill newborns and safe transportation to a fully equipped hospital with treatment on the way. Fox said. The van carries incubators, respirators, ultra-micro blood gas equipment and an x-ray machine that is powered by batteries and a 6,000-watt gas-powered generator, he said.
each film 75c, both for $1.00
The newest Jayhawk isn't quite a hawk—it's a stork. Jayskory is the nickname for a new mobile neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Memorial Hospital at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Jaystork is a $70,000 modified recreational vehicle designed by the KU Medical Center to provide emergency care for patients away as Pittsburg, Kan, and Manhattan.
Mobile care unit here tomorrow
Ode To The Last Minute Shopper
Now that Christmas is almost here,
You'd better get your butt in gear;
For the gifts you planned to buy
Have already been sold to another guy.
And so, you master of procrastination,
You should proceed without hesitation,
To the store of variety and quality renown—Haas Imports, downtown.
Chess sets and carvings and steins for booze. And thousands of other items from which to choose. And, in case you're wondering, Old Chap. Yes, we do gift wrap.
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REMEMBER
WHEN . . .
... you were back at Grinder Switch High School?
... you rushed to the high school counselor's college catalog rack to find your kind of university?
... you were cruising along as a high school senior and you were told you couldn't come back for a fifth year?
you got 1,474 mimeographed letters from every college west of the Mississippi?
... you came to the KU campus and couldn't find the Union
... and then you couldn't find your car?
Statewide Activities is a friendly, home town approach to making prospective KU students more at ease with the University by helping them solve problems such as the ones listed above.
If you would like to ease the pain of transition from high school to the University for a '75 high school senior, then join the Student Senate's Statewide Activities Program.
If you would like to help, stop by or call the Student Senate office, 105-B Kansas Union (864-3710).
STATEWIDE ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES OF THE STATEWIDE ACTIVITIES PROGRAM
... Housing high school students when they come to the campus.
... Taking students on tours of the campus and talking to them about the university.
... Going back to your home town and talking to interested students.
... Going with people from the admissions office to Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and other cities.
... Working on an informative brochure of student activities which incoming freshmen can become involved in and activities that the city of Lawrence has to offer.
... Talking with state legislators about the University and its needs.