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Wednesdav. February 14. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Waste...
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would be sterile, so there wouldn't be any of the sanitation problems associated with it.
An initial report by an Omaha consulting firm on the waste-burning power plant suggested that the new plant be built on a small-scale platform in Space Technology and Kansas University Endowment Association buildings. The terrain would hide it from view from major airports.
THE KU plant would be completely enclosed. The ash and noncombustible material would be collected in a silo and taken to a local landfill. Smith said the residue would equal one-tenth of the current material taken from Lawrence to its sanitary landfill.
Allen Wiechert, director of Facilities Planning, said Franklin Associates, an Olathe consulting firm, was now conducting a long-range study for a waste-burning plant for KU. The report is to be completed in March.
Wiechert said the University had requested $880,000 from the Kansas Legislature to begin designing and building the new waste-burning plant.
"The Governor, however, did not include this request in his budget recommendations (1)."
WIECHERT SAID the University was still hoping the Legislature would provide the necessary funding to help
"The immediate availability of waste makes this energy source practical," he said. "Waste will be available in the future and will be more waste than natural gas or oil."
"We have to weigh the waste-burning plant against other alternatives to see if there are any cheaper methods of energy. We know that the gas, the plant would be more expensive. However, if we do run out, it would be good to have a power plant here. If someone else were to build a waste-burning plant near the plant, the energy would no longer be an option for us."
RODGER ORKЕ, Facilities Operations director, said his department was working on other methods of providing energy now. He also expected a waste-burning plant to be built soon.
"The University is not going to have a waste-burning power plant soon." Oroke said. "If it were funded today, the plant wouldn't be operational for several years. It would be lost of time to cover between now and when some alternative fuel source is available."
Smith agreed with Oroke that there was no easy, available solution to the energy problem.
sua films
Wednesday, February 14 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
(1946)
Dir. Frank Capra; with James Stewart, Donna Reed, Gloria Gahama, Lionel Barrymore. This is Capra and a movie of all those they made.
Thursday, February 15
STREET CORNER STORIES
Dir. Warington Hudil; a documentary depicting the American black storytelling tradition and blues scene in the mid-1960s, "The Heat Me?" #7, "The History Book, v. 3."
Friday & Saturday,
February 16 & 17
DON'T LOOK NOW
Dir. Nicholas Iosha, with Donald Sutherland, Jule Christie. A thriller about a young man who fell to Earth* and "Performance." $12.95. Sat-7:00
CABARET (1872)
Dir. Robert Fosse; with Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Manta Teana, and Christopher Nolan Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Actor in Drama.
Midnight Movie
A BOY AND HIS DOG
(1975)
Dir. L.Q. Jones, with Don Johnson,
Bruce Ward, and Steve McGowey.
Moore. A kinky tale of survival in the year 2024. PLUS: the space apic of "Hardware Wars." a parody of D.S. McGowey.
tuesday, February 20
BONNIE & CLYDE
Dr. Arthur Penn; with Warne Beaty, Dr. Arthur Penn; with Pete Tarsle, Pete Tarsle. One of the most important films of the 60s, this film is a classic and on excessive violence in the movies.
(1967)
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud. at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00 admission
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless otherwise noted; $1.50 admission.
many institutions in other parts of the country.
"A SOLUTION to the energy problem probably won't be found," Smith said. "Energy supplies will continue to dwindle and costs will go up."
Smith said many different means would be to be used in the future to bent the caes
"The New England area is looking at burning wood again," Smith said. "They are 100 percent on imported oil and 80 percent of their own woodland plants and individuals are now burning wood."
"Wood is not the total answer. Solid waste and all other methods would help the energy problem. There's not going to be any nice, neat solution though."
Smith said another possibility discussed frequently was solar energy, but now the costs of solar energy were too high to make the sun a prime source of energy.
A "SOLAR HOT water system costs $2,000, compared to a gas system of $150," he said. "Solar energy costs a lot of money because it will take up, up, solar systems will make more sense."
"A solar installation to furnish enough, heat for the University would need 25 acres of land," Smith said. "Two to three years later, it could be up to 100 million and costs would be higher today."
Smith said a solar energy system to heat KU was impractical.
Smith said the most severe energy problem for the United States was now oil. The precarious situation in the Middle East has contributed to the difficulties, he said.
SMITH ALSO said it was difficult for President Jimmy Carter to get any meaningful energy program through Congress.
"The American public has a lifestyle that requires a lot of oil," Smith said.
"congress is very diverse," Smith said. "The Northeastern oil conservat interests are quite different from the Midwestern areas where a lot of oil is produced."
Smith said perhaps the biggest problem was that the American public was not convinced there was an energy crisis and that the conservation methods were not totally effective.
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