University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1982
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By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
The infant solar energy industry is booming because of rising energy costs and government tax credits, local solar equipment dealers said yesterday.
Solar equipment dealers displayed their wares yesterday and Saturday at the Private Property Energy Exhibition, Hills Shopping Center, 1601 W. 23rd St.
The exposition, sponsored by the Lawrence Board of Realtors as part of Private Property Week, also included fire safety and/wpainment burning stoves, fire safety and/wpainment
Interest in solar energy has increased recently. Of the firms displaying solar equipment, none had operated in Lawrence for more than two years.
ALL SEASONS SOLAR INC., 2321
Ponderosa Drive, has sold 16 solar
systems, including six to KU professors, since the Topka company opened a Lawrence branch last October, in energy consultant for the firm, said.
The average cost of such a system is about $10,000, and the circulation fan uses about 10 cents of electricity a day, he said.
The government pays for much of the equipment by allowing the homeowner to deduct 70 percent of the cost from his income taxes. The maximum tax credit the government allows is $7,000, Malin said.
"If you bought a $10,000 solar system, it would cost you about $3,000 out of your own pocket," he said. "Most homeowners do not realize what tax
credits are available. They're awesome."
BECAUSE THE tax credit is cumulative over the years, anyone can take advantage of it, even though he does not pay very much in taxes, Jack Turcotte, a representative of Sunburst Solar, said.
"You can carry the credits forward to succeed years until it's used up," he
A potential solar energy boom would radically change the appearance of Lawrence, John Ware, a representative of Solace Inc., N.219. Einth St., said.
Ware said he was concerned that during the next decade, Lawrence would have solar panels haplazhary pasted on roofs and walls in every building.
But Turcotte said he was not worried about that.
"In 1950, it was pretty weird for anyone to have a TV antenna on their
WARE SAID he preferred to work with clients to design a passive solar system that blended well with the house.
roof," he said. "Now, it seems normal.
We don't feel the panels are ugly."
Active systems depend on pumps or fans to distribute heat and tend to involve panels that are added onto existing buildings, Ware said.
Passive systems depend on physical laws by which heat circulates in order to heat a building without fans.
"The passive system is much more attractive than sticking a bank of panels up there," he said.
That is because passive systems depend on glass or plastic panes that are built into a wall or roof, rather than being an addition, he said.
Ware and Solace are designing and building a passive system for a house at 1000 Ohio St.
ANOTHER COMPANY that
remodelds houses for passive solar heating, in addition to selling solar panels, is Great Plains Solar Builders, 228 Beerfield Lane.
The two-year-old company has sold
a dozen solar units, TOM Bryant,
a retailer of the solar sector.
The company is now altering a house
battery collection porch into a passive
solar collector.
The house is owned by Thomas and Anne Moore. 1007 Alabama St.
The floor of the porch was removed and five tons of gravel covered by a sixinch slab of concrete was installed to store heat from the sun, Bryant said.
Now that the floor, which is the building's heat storage mass, is built, the porch will be walled in with glass, he said.
The floor will retain heat all day and the rising heat will flow throughout the house without the use of fans, he said.
Busy evolutionist to miss debate with creationist
Donald Johanson, well-known evolutionist, has dropped out of tomorrow's dual lecture with Duane Gish, a creation science advocate, Student Union Activities announced recently.
Scott DuPree, Forums director for SUA, said that Johansson would not attend because he would be would at Carnegie Hall in New York accepting an award for a book he had written.
"We just found out a couple of days ago about this, and it's sad news to many people who wanted to hear the two men speak." DuFre said.
DuPree has been looking for a replacement.
"We'll find someone. I'd hate to have Gish here and speak alone.
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The Men of Delta Psi Chapter of
Theta Chi Fraternity would like to express their sincere appreciation to the following groups and individuals for their support, help, and assistance in the reinstallation of our Chapter on April 24,1982.
Dean Caryl Smith
Ann Eversole
Art Farmer
Dave Svingen
KU Panhellenic
KU IFC
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority
Alpha Phi Sorority
Chi Omega Sorority
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