LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2650

TO PROVIDE FOR THE EARLY COMMERCIAL DEMONSTRATION IN
RESIDENTIAL HOUSING AND OTHER BUILDINGS OF TECHNOLOGY
FOR SOLAR HEATING AND COMBINED SOLAR HEATING AND COOL-
ING BY THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT,
TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY COORDINATING
COUNCIL, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
H.R. 11864

TO PROVIDE FOR THE EARLY COMMERCIAL DEMONSTRATION OF
THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOLAR HEATING BY THE NATIONAL AERO-
NAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, IN COOPERATION WITH THE
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS, THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUN-
DATION, THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, AND OTHER
FEDERAL AGENCIES, AND FOR THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND
COMMERCIAL DEMONSTRATION OF TECHNOLOGY FOR COMBINED
SOLAR HEATING AND COOLING

MARCH 27, 1974

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1974

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, New Jersey, Chairman

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia
CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island
EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin
WALTER F. MONDALE, Minnesota
THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri
ALAN CRANSTON, California
HAROLD E. HUGHES, Iowa
WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine

JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania
ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio

J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont

CONTENTS

Text of:

S. 2650

H.R. 11864 (as reported from the Committee on Aeronautical and

Space Sciences).

S. Rept. 93-734_

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1974

Bisplinghoff, Raymond, Sc. D., Deputy Director, accompanied by Alfred

Eggers, Jr., Ph. D., Assistant Director for Research Applications, Na-

tional Science Foundation____

Eggers, Alfred Jr., Ph. D., Assistant Director for Research Applications,

National Science Foundation___

103

Glaser, Peter E., Dr., vice president, engineering sciences, Arthur D. Little,

Inc., Cambridge, Mass.--.

149

Clark, Wilson, consultant to the Environmental Policy Center, Washing-

ton, D.C_____

MacKenzie, James, Dr., member, Massachusetts Audubon Society and NSF/

NASA solar energy panel----

160

168

Hampton, John, associate director, National Tenants Organization, Inc.,

Washington, D.C___.

234

STATEMENTS

Bisplinghoff, Raymond, Sc. D., Deputy Director, accompanied by Alfred

Eggers, Jr., Ph. D., Assistant Director for Research Applications, Na-

tional Science Foundation___.

102

Clark, Wilson, consultant to the Environmental Policy Center, Washing-

ton, D.C...

227

Prepared statement_-_.

227

Eggers, Alfred Jr., Ph. D., Assistant Director for Research Applications,

National Science Foundation__

103

Prepared statement_

129

Glaser, Peter E., Dr., vice president, engineering sciences, Arthur D.

Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass__

149

Prepared statement_

155

Hampton, John, associate director, Nationad Tenants Organization, Inc.,

Washington, D.C____

234

Prepared statement_

244

Löf, George O. G., director, Solar Energy Laboratory, Colorado State Uni-

versity, and president, International Solar Energy Society___.

MacKenzie, James, Dr., member, Massachusetts Audubon Society and

NSF/NASA solar energy panel----

257

160

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Articles, publications, etc.:

Alternative Energy Systems and Components, by Solar Wind, Co.,

North Orland, Maine, January 1974__

163

Economics of Solar Collectors, Heat Pumps and Wind Generators,

autonomous housing study, working paper 3, by Berry E. Smith___

173