i i eat heat? Finns holding, energy technology seminars United Press International The first seminar is being held in Finns believe the United States ul- United States of small fossil-fir [71X7 V U I/ - HTU ^ * U :ft f r-t 111A iiftltr^^ t-t^.tf .tt« \ 1711 n (-* t i n cr r^lnnt'c on f Conable, R-N Hill Archer,! United Press International pal the lirait!| NEW YORK — The energetic icli Social Secii’inns are staging three seminars in receive andstl| e United States this month trying o sell American communities on 'innish technology for better nergy production and use. The\’ are concentrating on three elds: district heating, using peat as * * tel and the development of eco- — - omical, small hydroelectric abll“” gial 0 h d Press Interna(i(5 r was tremeniicking. anight Western The 2nd District congressman ly Soviet threat id he developed the plan because ce or territom bis concern over the “deteriorat- Ifsense of obligation of young t helped hui-ople toward government, added i army intoa th the financial burden of the all- :e capable o[ lunteer military force and the de- nsion into tbtFiorating nature of the armed ving as a watcl'ces.” oil shipping! Under the plan, all teen-agers houses key int >uld register with the federal gov ts which monit anient before their 18th birthday md missile lau d indicate a six-month period be- of 627,000 Mjijeen their 18th and 26th birthdays > Texas and Ab'en they would be available for a is bounded k tv. the West, tbdf chosen by a random process, a south, Afghan r son would be inducted for two- !he east, and ir service with the government. If I chosen within the six-month no portion oft dod, the obligation would end. gecl on almost Persons would be able to choose s. ether they wanted military or ran’s oil usedfiban employment. A pool of rope. South A»it 4 million low-cost personnel n. Most of the MW be available at any one time, inaugh said. evenues fundi Revolution i id rapid moder of Iranian life nodernistic vii s Shiite Most •s who disdaii ig and seen! n’s leap into! ■ leaders help: the shah, le Shah’s atte eform, almost population isil The first seminar is being held in Washington this week, the second in New York next Tuesday and the third in Chicago Jan. 25. The federal Department of Energy is co sponsoring the programs. None of the technology the Finns will be describing is radically new, but because of the geographical peculiarities of their country, the Finns have developed expertise and hardware in these areas that they feel the United States could make use of. Take district heating. In New York, although Consolidated Edison Corp. has piped steam to apartment houses and other buildings in Man hattan for decades, most Manhattan buildings have their own heating plants. The idea of selling steam heat as well as electricity all over their mar keting areas has barely come to the notice of most American utilities. By contrast, almost 20 percent of the buildings in Finland are heated by steam supplied by the electric power industry^. In some Finnish cities, 50 percent of all heating steam is supplied from central plants. The Finns believe many Ameri can utilities could use their technol ogy to produce and market steam for district heating along with electric ity at a profit. Speakers at the semi nars will discuss the engineering and cost factors involved. Even though Energy Secretary James Schlesinger has urged Ameri can utilities to burn gas temporarily and delay conversion to coal, the Finns believe the United States ul timately should utilize peat as well as coal to generate energy as petro leum fuels become more scarce. The United States has a lot of peat as well as coal and lignite. The biggest deposits are in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Peat ac counts for only 2 percent of Fin land’s energy generation (in contrast with one-third for Ireland) but there has been a dramatic increase in the past three years. The Finns have developed improved boiler furnaces for burning peat and they believe some American communities could use their skills and even their hardware to great advantage. There is growing criticism in the ic" xxr Lhiited States of small fossil-fired electric generating plants on the grounds they are economically inef ficient. On the other hand, the Finns say small hydroelectric plants have proved extremely efficient in their country with its thousands of lakes. For some years it has been widely accepted that the United States al ready has used up nearly all its eco nomically feasible hydroelectric- sites. 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