Bulletin Daily Paper 07/10/11

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OSU-CASCADES’ GEOTHERMAL PROJECT

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Renewable system is one of many statewide; do savings justify the cost? Using the Earth to regulate a building’s temperature OSU-Cascades plans to install a geothermal heating and cooling system in the coming year. The closed-loop system pumps water into pipes running as much as 300 feet into the ground. The system is designed to both heat and cool the building, depending on the season.

By Paul Rogers San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News

Millions of tons of debris that washed into the ocean during Japan’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in March — everything from furniture to roofs to pieces of cars — is now moving steadily toward the United States and raising concerns about a potential environmental headache. Scientists using computer models say the wreckage, which is scattered across hundreds of miles of the Pacific Ocean, is expected to Inside reach Midway and the North• Mapping western Hawaiian Islands by the debris’ next spring and beaches in Orfive-year egon, Washington and Califortrajectory, nia in 2013 or early 2014. Page A5 “Can you imagine San Francisco put through a shredder? A big grinder?” said Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has studied marine debris for more than 20 years. “The area north of Tokyo was basically shredded. We are going to see boats, parts of homes, lots of plastic bottles, chair cushions, kids’ toys, everything.” Complicating the issue, nobody knows for sure the exact area where the debris is spread or its density. The debris is estimated to be moving east at roughly 10 miles a day and spread over an area about 350 miles wide and 1,300 miles long — roughly the size of California. See Debris / A5

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Social media stoked protests, but could it bring peace, too? By Ethan Bronner New York Times News Service

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Moad Arqoub, a Palestinian graduate student, was bouncing around the Internet the other day and came across a site that surprised and attracted him. It was a Facebook page where Israelis and Palestinians and other Arabs were talking about everything at once: the prospects of peace, of course, but also soccer, photography and music. “I joined immediately because right now, without a peace process and with Israelis and Palestinians physically separated, it is really important for us to be interacting without barriers,” Arqoub said. And he doesn’t appear to be alone. See Peace / A6

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The temperature below ground is lower than that of the air above ground. Water from the building system travels through pipes below ground, where it cools. The chilled water returns to the building, cooling the interior.

The temperature below ground is higher than that of the air above ground. Water from the building system flows through pipes below ground and warms. The warm water then returns to the building, warming the interior.

By Patrick Cliff • The Bulletin

A sample of the soil beneath OSU-Cascades was taken this winter, testing how well the ground would conduct heat. The test found several layers of porous lava but still concluded a geothermal system could work. Here’s what the test found in the ground:

Source: energysavers.gov

A look below By this fall, dozens of pipes could extend deep into the soil below Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, creating a geothermal system to help heat and cool the building it rents on the Central Oregon Community College campus. About 80 PVC loops, each about 2 inches wide, will pipe water more than 300 feet underground. In winter, the water will run through the underground pipes, warming to between 50 and 56 degrees. The warm water will be used to heat Cascades Hall. In summer, a similar process will occur, but the water will drop below the surface air’s temperature and cool the building. The system will be one of a handful of renewable energy demonstration projects at state schools, including University of Oregon and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The projects are also meant to offer learning opportunities. A combination of federal and state money will pay for the roughly $600,000 OSU-Cascades system. OSU-Cascades will likely pay at least $20,000 less in annual utility costs. Vice President Becky Johnson, who runs OSU-Cascades, said the savings would not cover the system cost for “many, many years,” so having another reason to install the geothermal system helps justify spending public money. “I do understand this is a substantial project that needs to have benefits

beyond energy savings,” Johnson said. “If there weren’t an educational benefit, it probably wouldn’t make as much sense.”

Testing the ground In late January, OSU-Cascades began a test to see if such a system was viable. University officials had previously considered a solar-power system, which at more than $600,000 would have provided about 10 percent of the building’s energy needs, according to Matt Shinderman, who teaches natural resources courses at OSU-Cascades and leads the geothermal project. Test results showed that a geothermal system providing heating and cooling for all but peak days was affordable. A system for all the building’s heating and cooling needs, however, would have been too costly. Only about a decade old, Cascades Hall’s HVAC system still works, which means the new heat pump will complement what is already there, Shinderman said. See Geothermal / A7

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GREELEY, Pa. — Mickey Black, in khaki shorts and a polo shirt, is pacing the crossroads at Pine Forest Camp. Up to the flagpole, down the hill to the dining hall. Up to the basketball court, down to the infirmary. On a recent cloudless summer morning, deep in the Pocono Mountains, Black is anxious. He has the right to be: About 450 chil-

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A 200-foot-tall metal tower is slated to be built on top of Awbrey Butte as part of a statewide initiative to improve public safety and emergency response communications throughout Central Oregon. The tower is designed to replace a 60-foot-tall one that serves local public safety organizations, including the Bend police and fire departments. The new tower is to become part of the Oregon Wireless Interoperability Network, which is a $586 million program created by the Legislature in 2005 to improve and consolidate radio systems, such as those used by the Oregon State Police and the state transportation and corrections departments. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Capt. Tim Edwards said the tower will allow other government agencies like his to place their own antennae on the structure. “Awbrey Butte is an ideal location because of its central location,” Edwards said. “Bend is kind of the middle of the state. They can run their system north, south, east and west.” There are still some hurdles to cross. One is a public meeting Tuesday with the Awbrey Butte Homeowners Association. Some of its members have vociferously disapproved of such structures going up in the past. The tower also will be the first to go through the city of Bend’s new wireless communications ordinance. That law was designed to cut down on visual conflicts and limit the placement of large towers –— those taller than buildings and trees — in residential neighborhoods. In essence, it tries to force groups wanting to build towers to make the structures as unobtrusive as possible. See Tower / A8

How oil oozes through your life We’ve found a startling range of uses for oil and its byproducts, from asphalt to pills from the drugstore to the vanilla flavoring in ice cream (yum!). What we haven’t found is a replacement as we wean off the stuff. See how oil oozes through your typical day on Page A6.

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Camps are about quaint summers of volleyball, nighttime chess and s’mores no longer. Today, professionals are the teachers — all the better, so it goes, to get Harry or Holly into Harvard.

dren — the happy and the homesick, the hearty and the stuffynosed and even the contagious — are about to descend on him. And those campers are Black’s customers, the under-10s, tweens and teens who will determine whether his multimillion-dollar-ayear enterprise prospers or, like so many others, struggles to survive. Pine Forest Camp is about to open for the summer. The pressure is on as never

before. Private traditional sleepaway camps like Pine Forest seem even more of a luxury nowadays. But beyond the slack economy is a profound change in the business of summer camp. As in just about every industry, upstarts are muscling in, and holding out 21st-century promises: We can groom the modern organization kid, hone lacrosse skills, improve algebra, pad the high-school résumé. See Camp / A8


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