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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1979
Harnessing of wind power rear
for competitive electric energy
United Press International
CLEVELAND — Scientists and
engineers are close to harnessing
wind power for commercial produc
tion of electricity, a federal expert
on wind power told a national con
ference at the space agency’s Lewis
Research Center.
Some 300 persons from across the
United States attended a daylong
program Wednesday at the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration s research center in Cleve
land. The discussion focused on the
current technology and marketing
potential of wind turbine electric
generators.
Louis Divone, chief of the U.S.
Department of Energy's Wind Sys-
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terns Branch, told the conference
that wind power technology is
clearly more advanced than other
energy sources such as solar, geo
thermal and tidal power.
But he cautioned, “We still have
to develop a wind turbine that
lasts a long period ot time and has a
high degree of reliability, in terms
of production of electricity.”
A key obstacle facing researchers
is to lower the cost of generating
such power to below 3 cents per
kilowatt hour.
Divone listed several problems,
all affecting the cost of power pro
duction, associated with the effort to
harness wind power for commercial
production of electricity.
The wind energy chief, noting
that costs for wind energy develop
ment have soared in recent years,
told the conference that the federal
government will need up to $600
million to develop a wind turbine
acceptable for commercial power
production.
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next six weeks. Eg grits
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shadow, it means six more wetlfga teh
winter. If the groundhog-t days of i
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By TRACEY WILLIAMS
Battalion Reporter
THE CAMPUS CHEST loan
program will be undergoing some
changes this semnester, including
stricter eligibility requirements and
the possibility of legal action if the
loan is not repaid, said Jim Pratt,
Campus Chest director.
Pratt said loans will be more dif
ficult to get this semester because
the term “emergency” will be more
narrowly defined. If students do not
repay their loans, they will be taken
to court, he said.
Through Campus Chest, students
can borrow up to $100 for emergen
cy purposes if they agree to repay
the loan within 60 day. The loan is
interest-free.
Pratt, a junior environmenmtal
design major from Houston, said
that if after 60 days the loan is not
repaid, the student will be fined 50
cents a month until the loan is re
paid. He said the fine may be in
creased this semester.
PRATT SAID IT is up to the per
son interviewing the student to de
cide if the situation is an
emergency.
“I don’t want to discourage stu
dents from coming in, but an
emergency is not just running out of
money, or saying that things got
more expensive than expected,”
Pratt said.
He said one example of an
emergency would be a student who
needed to go home after a death in
his family.
To get this money, a student
would need to call the student gov
ernment office to set up an ap
pointment, Pratt said.
At the time of the appointment,
Pratt said, the student would have
to explain his need for the money to
Pratt or any two of the five student
government vice presidents.
IF THE LOAN was approved,
the student would sign an agree
ment to repay it within 60 days.
Pratt said Dr. Carolyn Adair, stu
dent government adviser, would
then have to approve the payment,
and a check would be made out to
the student at the Student Financial
Aids office.
Although it takes only 15’20 min-
tues to make the loan, Pratt said that
it can take several years to get
people to repay the loan.
When he began as director of
Campus Chest in the fall, Pratt said,
there were 25 people who had bor
rowed money between 1976 and
1978 who had not repaid the loans.
“About 15 were no longer stu
dents, and they had packedup and
left. Ten were still here, and we
blocked grades and transcripts until
they paid the loans back,” Pratt
said.
The 15 former students were sent
certified letters threatening legal ac
tion if the loans were not repaid
with 10 days.
PRATT SAID THATot
people, about half did not rein
and of those that did, onlytwc'
made any type of payment.
If the payments are mtrea
within two weeks, Pratt said
proceedings will be started
small claims court.
He said that if a person pay
fore his scheduled court af{
ance, the proceedings will bei
ped.
Although the repayment o(! Skylal
is a problem, Pratt said anotk
problem Campus Chest facesi
many students do not knowita somet
Pratt said that in the pas
Campus Chest had gotten itsl 5a ^> 1
from donations made at Texas
University football games. He
that this had not been donetb
and therefore he is planning
ferent type of fund-raising p:
for the spring.
PRATT SAID HE hopei
project will “not only raise
hut also let students knowthatf
is a place they can go if they i
money.”
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