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The Battalion
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Campus
Program conducts
energy-cost audits
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
Texas A&M staff members
and students are working together
in a state conservation program
that saves schools and state agen
cies money by cutting down on
their energy costs.
The LoanSTAR program (Loan
to Save Taxes and Resources), de
veloped four years ago when the
Governor's Energy Office of Texas
made a proposal to the federal De
partment or Energy to use revenue
from the Petroleum Violation
Fund, also is known as the Oil
Overcharge Fund. The fund was
established with the money from
charges to businesses which vio
lated federal laws during the
1980s.
The DOE approved the pro
posal for a $98.6 million loan sys
tem for the governor's office to
fund conservation programs
among schools and state agencies.
Dr. Dan Turner, associate dean
in the College of Engineering and
program manager, said
LoanSTAR works with schools
and state agencies that request en
ergy audits.
The governor's office has sev
eral engineering firms contracted
to perform the audits, which de
termine ways the schools and
agencies could save money by
conserving energy.
A&M researchers work with
the engineering firms after the au
dits are conducted. Researchers
review the results of the audit and
install monitors at the school or
agency involved in the audit.
The 50 full- and part-time re
searchers at A&M analyze data
from the monitors to determine if
the savings reported in the energy
audits actually exist.
"It's a very sophisticated and
high-tech system," he said.
"There are hundreds of channels
of data to be analyzed."
Turner said there are presently
about 45 buildings across the state
being monitored by A&M. By the
end of this year, 20 more monitors
should be installed, he said.
The federal government has
made proposals for programs
based on a model of the state
LoanSTAR program. Turner said.
"It's interesting that the federal
government is designing a pro
gram based on a state program,"
he said. "It's the best program of
its type in the country."
There are part-time faculty
members, researchers, graduate
and undergraduate students, and
full-time researchers working on
the program, at A&M.
Turner said so much traveling
is involved that the program
could not function with only stu
dents involved.
Graduate students interested
in the program can contact a facul
ty members on the project. Turner
said students with a strong inter
est in the energy area and those
with a strong background in the
Winging it
Dudley Wysong of the Texas A&M Flying Club promotes while stationed underneath the wing of a Cessna 172o'
the dub's activities and benefits to passers-by Tuesday the Gen. Ormond R. Simpson Drill Field.
Four freshmen win space science contest
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
See Intern/Page 5
Four Texas A&M freshmen
have brainstormed for the past
three years and designed an expe
dition that is literally out of this
world.
They designed a trip to Mars
and, as a result, won a national
competition called "Destination:
Mars" and a visit to Washington,
DC.
Lee French, Tim Kieschnick,
Zane Rhodes and Jason Korb, all
recent graduates of Giddings High
School in Giddings, a small town
50 miles south of College Station,
have been chosen as winners of a
space science competitions?
sored by NASA and theNai
Science Teachers Association
Teams of high school stud-
entered the nationwide com;
tion.
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