1) Sorry, folks, but some 10 days after our last issue went out, Engineering News Record of July 28 reported that Soyland Power Cooperative had quietly canceled the nation's first compressed air energy storage system (CAES) described in our August issue. We were not the only ones caught by surprise: so was the technical assistance team of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The immediate reason was the result of test borings showing that compressed air would not be contained by the type of rock at the proposed site near Hannibal, Mo. (better known to millions the world over as the "St. Petersburg" of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn). However, apparently the system was also judged uneconomical in comparison to other, conventional Illinois sources from which the Soyland Cooperative buys power. The EPRI study group, now formed by five other utilities, expects 3 to 5 years to pass before anything is done on the scale of the plant operating in West Germany and originally planned by Soyland.
2) Young Americans for Freedom: Mr. Pimm has once again not replied to our report sent to him with a request for comment, but YAF advertisements soliciting contributions using the (now essentially mute) Polovchak case continue
¾as we have now been advised, not only unauthorized by Polovchak, but even by YAF's Board of Directors, one of whom describes the appeals as "sleazy and possibly fraudulent." More details are available to AtE readers for a stamped, self-addressed envelope from YAF National Director Mark Judd, 5463 Hartwell, Dearborn, MI 48126. The one remaining mystery is the persistent silence of YAF founder William Buckley in his column of National Review, of which he is editor; he may need the advice of a widely read book that says "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off."|
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Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 11, No. 1 Date: November 29, 2004 11:04 AM Title: Ten years
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