Posted in Macro Posts by Dave Hampton
In Memory of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
“As I have traveled the this nation this year, I have discovered that despite the sense of hopelessness and helpless frustration that too often dominates the energy debate in Washington, there is a revolution of Yankee ingenuity changing the energy future of local communities.”
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy
September 1980
From the Introduction to “Passive Solar Energy: The Homeowners Guide to Natural Heating and Cooling” (1981) by Bruce Anderson and Malcolm Wells, Publisher: Brick House (click the link for a free download).
The Senator then goes on to cite examples of some of that ingenuity: increased gasohol production, solar water heaters installed in the Tennessee Valley, citizens turning to wood stoves to heat their homes, an MIT house that would employ meltable salts to store and release heat with only small changes in temperature.
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