Re: Carl Osterwald: World Renowned Idiot Who Plays With The Boys With Archaic Remote Neural Monitoring Equipment

#1 (**permalink**) 09-18-2006, 05:00 PM

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> Solar Industry Professionals Urgently Needed to Maintain ASTM Standards
> PARTICIPANTS needed on ASTM Subcommittees E44.04 on Solar Materials
> Performance, and E44.05 on Solar Heating and Cooling Subsystems and Systems,
> part of Committee E44 on Solar, Geothermal, and Other Alternative Energy
> Sources. Volunteers with knowledge of solar materials and/or "solar thermal"
> (solar heating and cooling systems) are sought to maintain existing
> standards and propose new standards.
> The committee highly encourages involvement from members of the solar,
> plastics, and paint industries, as well as materials engineers, chemists,
> and persons specializing in organic materials and new product development.
> "Without new participation," says E-44 Chairman Carl Osterwald, senior
> scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Co., "the existing
> twenty-odd solar thermal standards will be lost. This is the core reason we
> are trying to revive the activities."
>
> "Some of these standards are used outside of the solar thermal field," he
> reports. "I had a call from someone in the glass industry who is using one
> of the .04 specifications for buying glass, Test Method E 903 [Test Method
> for Solar Absorptance, Reflectance, and Transmittance of Materials Using
> Integrating Spheres]. They had a question about a piece of apparatus and a
> subcommittee chairman was needed with knowledge of solar thermal. People are
> using these outside of solar thermal, so these are important standards to
> maintain."
>
> Formerly a solar industry researcher for NIST, Committee E-44 member Larry
> Masters is a weathering materials testing specialist and president of Atlas
> Weathering Services, Miami, Fla. According to Masters, a lack of funding and
> demand has caused the market for solar-based heating and cooling systems to
> dwindle, but solar standards development needs to continue.
>
> "A big application 15 to 20 years ago was hot water heaters and space
> heating," says Masters, who chaired Committee E44 in the 1980s. "There were
> systems that are both active, where heat in a solar collector dissipates
> directly to a storage facility or the building, and passive, through
> structural design and south-facing exposures where sunlight is used as a
> heat source. The vast majority of these systems are used for domestic hot
> water heating. A main focus was on retrofitting for hot water, swimming pool
> heating, and space heating. There were even tax incentives granted under the
> Carter administration for retrofitting and actually putting in space heating
> through solar. All that died. When there's no incentive then to do it,
> interest quickly died. At least if we work on some sort of potential backup,
> from a standpoint of a strategy nationwide, that would be very good. But we
> tend to react more to a crisis than to strategic planning, don't we?"
>
> Regardless of current trends, ongoing maintenance and development of the
> solar materials performance and solar thermal standards of Committee E44
> will lay the groundwork for inevitable adoption of alternative energy
> sources.
>
> To participate or to comment, contact Carl Osterwald, National Renewable
> Energy Lab, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 (303/384-6764; fax:
> 303/384-6790). Committee E44 meets Nov. 15-16, 2000, in Dallas, Texas. For
> meeting or membership information, contact E44 Staff Manager Melinda Long,
> ASTM (610/832-9736).
>
> Email your comments it King Carl, the fascist at:
>
> carl_osterwald@nrel.gov
>
> http://www.astm.org/SNEWS/FEBRUARY_2000/solar.html
>
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