Re(2): cooling towers and zeolite?

[XINCLXstrawbale@txinfinet.com (strawbale Conference @ txinfinet.com)]

rath9362@uidaho.edu,Internet SMTP writes:

> >Check out Pliny Fisk III's Blueprint Demonstration Farm at Laredo, Texas.
> >The straw bale sheds use updraft and downdraft towers that utilize zeolite
> >(a natural mineral-based refrigerant - maybe someone from Texas knows more
> >about this - Bill?)

> I was kind of hoping
>someone would bale me out from my initial post.  The complete paper quoted
>above and a WHOLE lot more has been written by and is available for
>purchase from Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Austin,
>Texas. (512) 928-4786 for a catalog/pamphlet.  Mr. Fisk and company have
>been researching appropriate technologies as they relate to regional
>geo-biological/economic systems for years (since I was seven!?) -
>including strawbale.


Whoops - napping at the keyboard again, I guess!  Sorry!

The pamphlet that Kurt is referring to is part of this package:

2) INTEGRATION COMPENDIUM ($5.00), including:

       Integration vs. Conservation: A Renewable Energy Building Block for the
21st Century.
       Prepared for the 1991 American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting,
this paper
       establishes the fundamental importance of viewing technical systems --
solar or
       otherwise -- as elements of an industrial ecology, stressing the need
to move beyond
       conservation as a singular basis to determine efficiency and
effectiveness.

       A Sustainable Farm for the State of Texas. Judged as one of the top
three papers at the
       1989 American Solar Energy Society Annual Meeting, this paper explores
the capacity
       of agricultural projects to reflect a range of sustainable resources
and technologies
       including recycled and agricultural waste materials for building,
passive solar cooling
       technologies, extensive shading for extending the growing season, and a
conceptual
       planning methodology for building a sustainable farm.

       Metabolic Planning and Design. A plenary paper at the 1989 New England
Solar Energy
       Association's Annual Meeting, it details the need to merge the distinct
disciplines of
       ecological land planning, physical land planning, and economic
development.

       Energy & Resource Planning for Community Economic Development. A
concise
       position paper outlining the Center's approach towards integrating
regional economic
       development efforts by using a region's waste outputs as raw material
input.

To order, or for info on other publications available, check out the Max Pot
web site at http://www.maxpot.com  

If you don't have Web access and want a list of pubs, let me know by private
email and I'll copy and paste it to you.  


--

Bill Christensen
billc@txinfinet.com
Sustainable Building Calendar at http://www.greenbuilder.com
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