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XI. General information concerning Solar Energy-Continued
F. Selected materials from periodical publications and tele-
vision reports-Continued

6. Materials concerning recent congressional activity
on solar energy-Continued

c. Article by Richard Bradee, "Solar Energy
Lag Blamed on Politics," Milwaukee
Sentinel, May 17, 1975.

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d. Article by Harry B. Ellis, "Solar Heat?
Builders Say It's Ready Now," the
Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 1975 3558
e. Editorial, "Don't Buy a Solar Furnace,"
Wausau-Merrill (Wis.) Daily Herald,
June 4, 1975...

f. Editorial by Robert H. Spiegel, "Nelson
Boosts Solar Energy," Wisconsin State
Journal, June 5, 1975..

G. Selected technical materials concerning solar energy-
1. Conversion factors: An excerpt from a book by
Farrington Daniels, "Direct Use of the Sun's
Energy," New Haven, Conn., Yale University
Press, 1964...

2. Interim Reports by the National Bureau of Stand-
ards.

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a. Reprint: "Method of Testing for Rating
Solar Collectors Based on Thermal Per-
formance,' prepared for the National
Science Foundation, December 1974-----
b. Reprint: "Method of Testing for Rating
Thermal Storage Devices Based on
Thermal Performance," prepared for the
Energy Research and Development Ad-
ministration, May 1975....

3. Miscellaneous graphs, diagrams, and statistical
tabulations..

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H. Tables of contents from recent hearings, reports, and other
congressional documents directly related to solar energy-
1. Hearings--

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XI. General information concerning Solar Energy—Continued
H. Tables of contents from recent hearings-Continued

1. Hearings-Continued

a. Solar Energy Research-Continued

(2.) Senate Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs, Solar Energy
Research Act of 1974, June 27,
1974.

(3.) Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy, Solar Energy Re-
search and Development,
May 7 and 8, 1974.

b. Solar heating and combined heating and
cooling systems..

(1.) House Committee on Science and
Technology, Subcommittee on
Energy Research, Development
and Demonstration, ERDA
authorization-Part III, 1976
and transition period, solar
and transition period, Solar
Heating and Cooling, February
20, 1975...

(2.) Senate Committee on Commerce,
Special Subcommittee on Sci-
ence, Technology, and Com-
merce, Solar Home Heating
and Cooling Demonstration
Act of 1973, March 29 and
April 5, 1974.

(3.) Senate Committee on Labor and
Public Welfare, Special Sub-
committee on the National
Science Foundation, Solar
Home Heating and Cooling
Demonstration Act, 1974,
March 27, 1974.

(4.) Senate Committee on Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs,
Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs, Solar Home
Heating and Cooling Demon-
stration Act, March 20 and 21,
1974..

(5.) Senate Committee on Aeronauti-
cal and Space Sciences, Solar
Heating and Cooling, Feb-
ruary 25, 1974__

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(6.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee on
Energy, Solar Heating and
Cooling Demonstration Act,
November 13, 14, and 15, 1973. 3700

(7.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee on
Energy, Solar Energy for Heat-
ing and Cooling, June 7 and

XI. General information concerning Solar Energy-Continued
H. Tables of contents from recent hearings-Continued

1. Hearings-Continued

c. Other solar technologies_

(1.) House Committee on Science and
Technology, Subcommittee on
Energy, Bioconversion, June
13, 1974.

(2.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee
on Energy, Solar Photovoltaic
Energy, June 6 and 11, 1974 _ _
(3.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee
on Energy, Solar Sea Thermal
Energy, May 23, 1974

(4.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee on
Energy, Wind Energy, May 21,
1974

(5.) House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, Subcommittee on
Energy, Solar Energy for the
Terrestrial Generation of Elec-
tricity, June 5, 1973.

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2. Reports and other congressional documents..
a. House Committee on Science and Astro-
nautics, Solar Energy Research, Develop-
ment and Demonstration Act of 1974,
Report No. 93-1346, September 11, 1974. 3717
b. House Committee on Science and Astro-
nautics, Subcommittee on Energy, Review
of Selected Federal and Private Solar
Energy Activities, prepared by the Gen-
eral Accounting Office, June 1974.

c. House Committee on Science and Astro-
nautics, Subcommittee on Energy, Solar
Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act
of 1974; Background and Legislative
History, February 1974___

d. House Committee on Science and Astro-
nautics, Solar Energy Research; a Multi-
disciplinary Approach: Staff Report, De-
cember 1972__

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I. Annotated bibliography by Joan D'Ambrosi, research
aide, Legislative Research Service, New York State
Library, Albany, N. Y., "Solar Energy," September 1974. 3727

J. Selected glossaries..

1. Excerpt from a book by J. Richard Williams,
Ph. D., "Solar Energy Technologies and Appli-
cations" Ann Arbor, Mich., and Arbor Pub-
lishers, Inc., 1974.

2. Excerpt from a book by Alexander Taffel, "Phys-
ics-Its Methods and Meanings," Boston,
Allyn & Bacon, 1965----

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XII. Reprint: Federal Energy_Administration, "Final Solar Energy Task

ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND

SMALL BUSINESS

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1975

U.S. SENATE,

SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS,
Washington, D.C.

The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m. in room 318, Russell Senate Office Building, Senator Gaylord Nelson (chairman) presiding.

Present: Senators Nelson, Sparkman, McIntyre, Hathaway, and Clark.

Also present: Raymond D. Watts, general counsel; John M. Cross, professional staff member; Gary J. Klein, assistant minority counsel; Kay Klatt, research assistant; Mary Conway, staff assistant; Frank M. Shooster, academic intern; Dr. Ronal W. Larson, Director of Solar Technology Assessment, Office of Technology Assessment; Jeffrey Angus, legislative researcher to Senator Nelson; Betty Boynton, legislative assistant to Senator Hathaway; and Bethany Weidener, legislative aide to Senator Abourezk.

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. GAYLORD NELSON, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, AND CHAIRMAN, SENATE SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE

The CHAIRMAN. The Select Committee on Small Business will come to order.

The Senate Small Business Committee today opens a series of hearings on the role of small business in energy research and development. We expect this study to continue for several months. Future hearing dates will be announced.

The sessions today and tomorrow will be primarily concerned with solar energy and small business. Solar power has breathtaking potentials for the country at large and for the American small business community.

Sunlight is our most abundant energy resource. If we were now able to collect and convert to human use just one-half of 1 percent of all the energy that reaches the surface of the continental United States from the sun in a year, we would have 3%1⁄2 times our total national energy consumption of 1974, from all sources. We would have well over 100 percent of the high-side estimates of total national energy consumption in the year 2000.

Abundance is only one of the advantages of solar energy.

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