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Wind power II
Incentive tax credits offered
By T.L. Jeffries
Last issue,- Mike Aronson,
physics instructor, suggested a
feasibility study would be
necessary to determine
whether or not some of the
College’s energy needs could
be produced by using wind
power.
To do this, a generator must
be constructed. Here are some
facts and figures that should be
considered by any individual or
small business thinking of utiliz
ing this resource.
Tower size depends on any
tall trees that might act as a
windbreak, or the altitude that
the strongest wind currents can
be found at. Tower heights
ranqe from 60 to 100 feet. The
Pollsters seek
Radio choices
Of students
tripod base stands on legs ten
-to 15 feet apart.
The ability of the average
homeowner to afford a wind
system is due mainly to recent
federal and state legislation that
authorizes tax credits, long-,
term low interest loans, and'
property tax exemption fpr
residential and small scale alter
nate energy, systems/ A
homeowner that sets up a
system that* provides at least
ten percent of their energy re
quirements can claim a federal
tax credit of 30 percent of the
first $2,000 and 20 percent of
the next $8,000-spent on the
system. An Oregon incorne tax
credit can also be claimed for
25 percent of total cost, up to a
maximum credit of $1,000.
Long term loans at six and
one-half percent interest are
also available thanks to the
Oregon Legislature’s passage
of Senate Bill No. 611, which
will become effective by 1981.
This, Jn addition to the tax
credits and the exemption that
states that property cannot be
taxed for the increase in value
due to the addition of an
energy system, has made these
systems not only more attrac
tive, but more possible for the
average homeowner to have
constructed on their property.
Alien students tell
Of aid, sacrifice
By Steve Lee
Laát week The Print ran an
This last Thursday and Fri
,Shohreh Dastany, daughter,
day, a market research com article about the abundance of of a retired Iranian Army Col
pany called GMA interviewed financial aid available for onel, and of an author', says
students in the cafeteria com students wanting to go to that Persian people have a
cerning their preferences in .School here in the United
radio stations. The surveyor States. This week, it’s an article
more rooted tradition of trying
filled out a nine page question; about how. foreign students
to help each, succeeding
naire for each of me students are able to afford, or not afford,
generation get a leg up, so to
to come to school here.
interviewed.
speak. “They feel more
The questionnaire contained
In talking with many foreign responsible for their children.
everything from listener’s students it was discovered that Even families who are not
favorite disc-jockeys to the sta therg are varied ways for them wealthy send their children to
tion with the best contests and to attend here, (depending college. They sacrifice to do
traffic reports.
There were ..upon their country’s economic this.”
questions about which station status). Also important is family
plays the most new' music, thé tradition, American'Aid pro
Marwan Abdulla Yusef
most oldies, the best weather grams, and the resourcefulnes Thunayan Al-Ghanemis sup
and’ news reports, top forties
ported by his father, a
of the student.
same songs, disco, etc. Then
During the investigative work wholesaler in the import-export
there were questions about
for this article two basic ques business. “I have a student
which type of àudience a par
tions came up: 1) where do visa, which means I can’t work
ticular D.J. appealled to, what
these foreign students get their by United States Federal law.
age groups were reached the
support, and 2) do they have But I can work on campus.”
most by which stations, and
different priorities and values
whether or'hot a station was
Some of the Nigerian
concerning money?
geared more for_ men or
students
are supported by their
In answer to the first ques
women.
tion, three foreign students government. Other students
freely told The Print where have received scholarships to
their support came from. Tuan go to school ¡n the U?S.
The company doing the
Concerning the second
survey, GMA, ’ is bhsed ih Diop, from the former republic
Bellevue, Wash. They do all of South Vietnam, said that his question: Do they have dif
types off surveys, i.e., political support is in-thé .form of work ferent priorities and values con
in the CETA program. He and cernfrig money? Many of our
surveys!by telephone, door to
many of his friends and foreign students have different
door surveys of various new
relatives all are supported material values. They have dif^
products, the ' Mobil Opinion
fe^T^^iorities for what theu
Wagon, and a popular through CETA programs. -
marketing idea called “Mall In
tercept.’’ The Mobil Opinion
hours 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M. - CLOSED THURSDAY.
Wagon is a motorhome equip
50 VOLUMES MAXIMUM: 50*MAXIMUM/TRANSACTION
ped with a stove, microwave,
and other cooking utensils
necessary for preparing food
for the public to sample. “Mall
Intercept” is the idea of setting
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up booths in places like Fred
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Meyer land Jantzen Beach, and
encouraging passers-by to try
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new products.
In speaking of his clients,
Rick Young, another surveyor
on campus, explained, “It
helps them find a picture of the
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our clients to go to the bank.”
There are, though, still a few these systems is that any exces
bugs in the system, Since this power produced must bi
projeet is- new,- the state, bought by the, power company
federal, and county govern The. tower will have a separati
ments are unsure as how to meter that keeps track of th«
treat it and the accompanying power produced. If it is less
red tape takes longer than than the meter on the house fq
usual. A building permit for a power used, the owner pays
wind tower can take three for the difference. On the other
weeks q Y more to clear. It also hand, if it is more than the
has to be approved through house meter, the power com
zoning, and an individual pany pays for the difference.
waiver must be obtained brom
With all the new incentive
the State Department of being offered, the utilization ol
Energy since they are still stu the world’s most inexhuastible
dying whether or not the resource, wind, by private in
generators need to be U.L. ap dividuals on a small scale, can
proved, which every energy very probably increase greatly,
consuming device must be. It is There are several, wind (and
being determined whether or water) power companies that
not energy producing devices can be contacted for more in
should be also.
formation and cost quotations
After all paper work has
AU that is needed is an
been completed, the generator area free of wind breaks with
tan be up and functioning reasonable air currents, or i
within -six weeks. The main
gully, that many times attracts
length of time is one month for and funnels wind into
am
the concrete base to season through if.
after pouring.
Each location has its own
The most attractive point of wind patterns and
ai
anemometer should be . set up
spend thejr money on. to measure velocity and direc
Shohreh Dastany said, “Here tion: **
you spend more’. money -on . The' size and type o
houses, boats, and other generator also depends on in
things. It is very different in dividual needs and locations.
Iran. It is very important to Ira-" Generator capacities range
nian people to dress properly from three kilowatt hours to
for each occasion. If a family thirty kilowatt hours. The
comes over to visit our family,
smelliest can supply an average
we must be good hosts and residential home with 20 per
dress up for them, to show our cent of its energy needs, while
respect. Here, you are casual.” the largest could be utilized by
The' Vietnamese, Cambo apartments or a small corpora
dians, and Laotians spend less tion. In the middle 15 kilowatt
money on food than model that can supply1100-150
Americans, because they eat percent of a residence’s elec
more rice and vegetables. trical needs,, and is the one
Americans eat expensive meat most considered by potential
and cake mixes and gourmet buyers. -One of intermediate
foods, etc. The Western-culture size is in the process of being
promotes the purchasing of constructed in Boring, while
Middle-eastern, fwo others of. approximately
things.
African^ and Far-eastern the same design are waiting to
cultures don’t do this as touch, be set up in Estacada and
which gives them more money Redland as soon as the building
to spend per dollar earned.
permits are authorized. A
The culture differences lead system of this size can be con
to the difference in monetary structed for approximately
priorities..
$20.000.
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