Wednesday, December 3.1975
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University Daily Kansan
Windmills may stage a comeback
Bv ANITA SHELTON
Staff Writer
A recent decision by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) may make the use of wind energy a reality in the coming years to a former University of Kansas student.
William H. Ward, Lawrence attorney,
said yesterday that he had received a letter
from ERDA a few days ago which announced ERDA planned another survey to decide where to build several experimental windmills.
Ward said that ERDA which was idled in the center of developing a water in solar energy resource
Ward said he had received the letter after writing to ERDA several times about the need for an alternative source of electrical plant. The plant is looking for an alternative source of energy. Publicly owned utilities, such as the one in Garden City, weren't included in ERDA's original list.
This includes wind and water energy, he said.
"ERDA wrote 27,000 letters to power companies," he said. "The utilities they wrote to were the big investor owned companies. Kansas has 64 utilities that are publicly owned. Those utilities didn't get invited."
"I wrote a letter to ERDA in June asking for a free windmill since the wind here is good. I didn't hear from ERDA, so I wrote again in August. The third time I wrote, I sent letters to congressional persons. I then received a call from erda from ERDA saying they would be happy to include Garden City."
Ward was contacted by Garden City because he is the founder of a non profit company called Great Plains Windsturds. Ward still runs the company, which he said
Fuel approved for local airport
Lawrence Aviation Inc. achieved at least a temporary solution to its fuel shortage when the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) yesterday approved a supplemental allocation of aviation fuel to get the firm through 1975.
Bill Randall, president of Lawrence Aviation, which operates the Lawrence Municipal Airport, said the supplemental allocation of 7,900 gallons had been requested because the firm's allocation for vehicles could have run by mid-December.
"This allocation will just be something to get us out of the woods," Randall said. "We're still waiting for a decision from Warner to review the revision of the permanent allocation."
Aviation fuel allocations are based on the airport's 1972 fuel usage figures. The FEA granted early in 1974 an increase from 118,000 gallons a year to 130,000 gallons a year, the present level. Randall said the increase was insufficient.
"Our demands have been growing steadily here for the last two years," he said. "The 130,000 (gallons) we're getting are not enough." We were requesting 173,000 gallons for 1976.
Randall said he didn't know when the would rule next year's fuel planage.
In an attempt to cut fuel usage, the airport has been tightening sales to northeastern
"try to encourage the use of wind energy on any scale, using any size windmill."
"Windstorms is essentially a political organization," said Ward. "We're trying to form a constituency or lobbying force for wind energy."
Ward said that, according to the National Science Foundation, wind power alone could supply about 25 per cent of the entire needs of the United States by the year 2000.
The reason wind energy isn't being fully developed is that "the mechanics are such that nobody has an incentive to do anything." Ward said.
If wind energy is to be developed, Ward the states will have to take the initia
Robert E. Nunley, professor of geography, said he has had Ward speak to his geography class several times this week. Ward is a former student of Nunley.
Nurley, who is also a member of Wind- industries, said that most money was being channeled into established energy companies.
"The big money is not behind wind
money." The big money is
beyond fossil fuels.
Ward said that was true and that if wind
would be to be developed, it needed to
be planned in advance.
"The states in the Great Plains could let the federal government do it, but I think
that's naive," Ward said. "I don't think the federal government has its heart in anything but what the oil companies are interested in."
Ward said their immediate plan was to develop an interstate compact which would act as "official interstate watchdog". He added that the state had been required by a number of state legislatures this year.
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