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...small companies are turning to solar at the marketing end. The New England Fuel Institute, an association of 1,300 independent fuel oil distributors, sells conventional rooftop solar panels to its home-owning customers and trains technicians to install and service solar units. Says President Charles Burkhardt: "We see that solar is coming, and we want to control as much of the market as we can." Solar Appliance Centers Inc. of New York City is now franchising its highly successful retail shops, which sell such products as solar-powered calculators ($40) and showers for camping...
Financing big solar units for houses has been a problem, but increasing numbers of banks and mortgage lenders now offer solar loans. The New England Merchants National Bank of Boston recently introduced a maximum $10,000, low-interest Energy Saver's Loan, and the San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association offers low down-payment mortgages for new houses that use some form of solar power. The Bank of America has made about 2,000 loans, totaling more than $3 million, on its solar financing program, almost all of them in California, where Governor Jerry Brown's ambitious...
...houses as far apart as Maine and Hawaii, rooftop solar panels are sprouting as the ultimate in status symbols. The units are often unattractive (one California city now insists that they somehow be screened), and can cost from $7,000 to $12,000 to heat an eight-room house. Solar is also being used by industry. Anheuser-Busch employs sun heat for some beer pasteurization, Campbell's Soup to heat water to wash its cans, Tropicana to steam-process its orange juice. Solar energy provides heat or hot water or both in a visitors' center at Mount Rushmore...
...HELIOS, as at Harvard, last week witnessed the most spectacular demonstration of the decade. After five-and-a-half years of inactivity, a flare scorched the solar surface, shorting out the South Atlantic and juicing up the aurora borealis as far south as Cambridge. Fortunately, most of the sun's radiant energy reaches the earth in a form more suitable for earthling endeavor...
...campaign to harness that solar energy will reach its first milestone on Sun Day, a national celebration of solar resources scheduled this week in place of Wednesday. Locally, films, exhibits, demonstrations and picnics at and around MIT and the Boston Museum of Science will present the myriad possibilities for solar energy development. There will also be a speech at Harvard by David Jhirad of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who will discuss the potential of alternative energy sources...