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I-Renew has several workshops planned for the coming months, including a solar thermal workshop in north central Iowa and several One-Long-Day COLD") workshops on the basics of Wind, Photo Voltaics and more! Dates are still to be announced, so please contact Don Laughlin at irenew@irenew.org for the details on these great workshops.

Solar Traueler Program Expandinq

The I-Renew Solar Traveler mobile demon- stration trailer will be available for meetings, events and school visits throughout Iowa in 2002. The Traveler features PV panels, storage batteries and an inverter, can deliver 4000 watts of continuous AC power, has powered soundstages and radio club field days - even a wedding! For more details on having the solar traveler at your event, contact: irenew@irenew.org.

I-Renew Board Election Result

BOARD OF DIRECTORS for 2002:

Kara Beauchamp, Jeff Benz, Bennett Brown, Del Christensen, Rich Dana (Pres.), Ric Driver, Stan Eilers, Leland Freie, Don Laughlin (Treas.), Peggy Murdock (Co-Sec.), Tim Schulte (Sec.), Phil Scott, Martin Smith, Tom Snyder (Vice Pres.), Bill Vande Haar

ADVISORY BOARD: Patti Cale, Tom Deves, Jonna Higgins-Freese (Imm. Past Pres.), Dewayne Johnson, John Root, Heather Rhoads-Weaver, Ed Woolsey

MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR:

Teresa Sieckert

I I-Renew's loth Annual Energy Expo was a landmark event in several ways. Not only did it mark a decade of dedication and hard work by the members, but it celebrated the growing partner- ship I-Renew has enjoyed with its partners in the ongoing effort to bring about a healthy and sustainable energy future.

The event was held Sept. 8th and gth, 2001 at the Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. Prairiewoods not only hosts I-Renew's monthly board meetings, but has been the site of many of I-Renew's hands-on workshops. The picturesque 70 acre grounds include a restored prairie, woodland walking paths, two off-grid strawbale hermit- ages, guest houses with solar domestic hot water systems and will soon install a wind turbine. The sisters of Prairiewoods have put their commitment to the earth into practice in their everyday lives, thus the center proved to be the perfect home for Expo 2001.

Celebrating I-Renew's friendship with Prairiewoods was one of the great joys of our 10th Anniversary Renewable Energy Expo.

Another longstanding friendship was celebrated this year, as we were honored to have long-time I-Renew supporter and editor of Homepower Magazine, Richard Perez, as our keynote speaker. Mr. Perez not only gave the keynote address on Saturday, but stayed all weekend with his wife Karen and co-hort Joe Schwartz, manning a Homepower display table and talking with visitors.

Approximately 2000 people attended this year's event, visiting with 64 vendors and attending 60 workshops. Workshops covered topics as diverse as the basics of wind power, strawbale and

earthen floor construction and sacred energies. Alternative fuel vehicles were on display including the ISU solar race car "PrISUm" and the Cedar Rapids biodiesel-powered municipal bus.

Despite some rainy weather, midwesterners crowded the grounds, proving that interest in renewable energy is not only alive and well but growing! I-Renew heartily thanks all of the participants, volunteers and visitors who made this year's event happen, and we invite all of you to participate in I-Renew's effort to make renewable energy part of Iowa's future. For more expo photos, please visit:

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Corporate, Benewor & Sustaining Members I-Renewwishes to acknowledge the genemus support ofthe following members:

CORPORATE MEMBERS: Alliant Enerev. Robert Holmes -., Davis Caves Construction Double S Concrete, Lance Schaefer Eastern Iowa Assisted Living Services, LLC Eastern Iowa Visiting Nurses & Home Health Care, LLC Navitas Energy, Greg Jaunich Northern IowaWindpower, Michael Skelly NorthAmerican Hydro Inc., Loyal Gake PrairieTechnologies, Don Laugblin Solar Consultants, Jeffrey Benz

BENEFACTORMEMBERS; I O I West Mississippi LLC, David Maeglin & Deanwellman Applied Agricultural Technologies, Ed Woolsey Kara Beauchamp Laura Belin Bergey Windpower Company, Michael Bergey Stan Eilers Lucy Hansen Heartland Communications Group Inc., James Kersten Gary Ihlefeld Alan Linn J. Earl Mason M~dwest Cryogenics Inc., Dennis & Linda Davis David & Rebecca Murphy Jeff Shander & Pamela Read Jeff Walberg John Ronsch &Joan Wheeler

SUSTAINING MEMBERS; Alaska Applied Sciences Inc., Bill Leighty Alternative Power Renewable Energy Center, Gunars Petersons Thomas Arms Nathan & Mcole Baker Kirk Boyd Jeff Buffo Catnip Farm, Rich & Ericka Dana Cedar Falls Utilities. Pete Olson Clipper Wind power; LLC, Ken Hach Graham & Leanne de Freitas Gary Donnermeyer Lois & Nile Dusdieker Dan Dye Earth Care Organization Engineering Services Co, Christine & Ken Hulet Ed Engroff Farmers Electric Cooperative, Inc. Financial & Economic Consulting, Michael Stavy Bernie Gestein Aaron Gwinnup Dave Hurd Janda Electric Motor Service, Larry Janda Cathy Johnson, IowaAssociation of Railroad Passengers Jonna and Eric Higgins-Freese Don Hruby Charles Kachuli Paul and Lorraine Kent Donald & Mary Kirkpatrick Sr Kirkwood Community College David Kuntz Jane Magers Muscatine Power &Water, John Root Natural Solutions, Mike &Travis Miller Ron Nelson North IAMunicipal Elect Coop Assn., James Milam Peace Links, W a r ~ n & Olive Wilson Ted Pfeiff Prairiewoods Fransiscan Spirituality Center, Nancy Hoffman Project Resoulres Corporation, Paul White Fred Rossow Steve & Kate Sanders Chris Schoenherr Perry-0 & David Sliwa Martin Smith Donna Wahlert Waverly Light & Power, Glenn Cannon Robert Wennerholm WindVoltTechnology, rS cott & Mary Roe The Windlhrbine Company, Larry Miles Ernie & BethWilson BobYeats Brad Young Dick Young

With Special ThanksTo: 101 West Mississippi Limited Liability Corporation - Office Space Bobier Electronics - SolarTraveler's Sun Selector DC Master Digital Power Center Brookhaven National Laborities - Solar Traveler's 14 Photovoltaic Panels ExcelTech - SolarTraveler's 4000 watt Inverter Exide Battery Corporation - Solar Traveler's 16 Batteries Iowa Department of Natural Resources - Iowa Energy Expo Sponsor Iowa Energy Center - Iowa Energy Expo Sponsor Iowa Foundation for Education, Environment and the Arts - Special Funding Lee Honeycutt - Website Development The Leighty Foundation - Special Funding North Star CharitableTrust - Special Funding

From the President:

U... By the w a s ifyou want to have a war over oi& leave me out of it... because I don't think: we need it. All I have to say is Go S o b ! Go Wind! Let a littlejhedom into your life, and help your neighbors stayjhe, too.

- R i c h d P m ~ ' k p w t e adc;h.ess,$nal mmarks I-Renew5 ~othAnniversary Expo, Sept. 8,2001

I was disassembling the geodesic dome we had erected at Prairiewoods for Expo on September 11 th, 2001. It was a warm and windy late summer day, and the trampled grass in the meadow still held the positive energy of the 2000 curious and excited visitors who had walked there in the previous days. In dark contrast the radio in my truck flooded the air around me with news of unspeakable acts of desperate and hateful men.

The attacks held personal significance to me - though a native Iowan, I lived and worked in and around lower Manhattan for over a decade. As I began to unscrew the bolts that held the dome together, my mind was back in New York City, tracing in vivid detail the sights and sounds of my daily bicycle ride across the Brooklyn Bridge, under the shadow of the twin towervdodging taxis or catching a tow on the back door of a deliveryv,anL to my woodshop a few blocks north of the World Trade C e n ~ r .

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I sat down and looked up through the triangular sections of the dome, which made the sky and prairie around me look like the colored segments of a stained glass window. I feared for my friends and family back in the city and for the world, and listened with dull, numb disbelief.

In the months that followed, I kept thinking about the words of Richard Perez during his keynote address, just three days before the attack. He talked about the freedoms that renewable energy can bring. Among them were economic freedom andjhedomfimn wars over oil. Since September 11th I have read extensively about the roots of the hatred for America in Central Asia and the Middle East, and realized the extent to which motivations for action on both sides of the conflict are determined by the lust for oil.

It is with this knowledge that I invite you all, as members of the renewable energy community to join me in working with new and greater resolve, to prove to the world that we in Iowa can become exporters of homegrown energy, that we can significantly reduce our nation's dangerous reliance on vulnerable sources of energy - foreign and domestic crude, natural gas and nuclear power. We know that we i

can do this by using the great renewable resources we are blessed with :

in our state, not the least of which are our minds, hearts and spirits. I

Let us in Iowa and across the nation take this on as our personal responsibility, to make this America's last battle caused by foreign entanglements rooted in oil, and to honor the lives of those forever entombed under the rubble of corporate greed.

- Rich Dana, President, I-Renew Board of Directors irenewsletter@yahoo.com

Legislative Update -

'he 2002 legislative session is just around the corner. This year's ession promises to bring us REAL renewable energy legislation. ssues discussed will include net billing, an increase in our renew- ble portfolio standard, tax benefits and other issues.

?he homeland security issue will join economic development, nvironmental concerns, diversity and other important issues as ,opular reasons for supporting renewable energy As politicians tart preparing for the next campaign they will need positive issues o campaign on, so let's make sure they think of Renewable Energy as THE issue.

?or this session, I-Renew is working with coalition members in :-SEED (Iowans for Sustainable Energy & Economic Development) ~ n d IREP (Iowans for Responsible Energy Policy) to develop a list ~f renewable energy policy recommendations for the upcoming egislative session, which begins in January If you would like to lelp in our legislative effort this year by contacting your representa- tive and senators, please e-mail I-Renew. As part of the IREP zoalition, I-Renew is also formulating a response to the Governor's Energy Policy Task Force report, "Recommendations for New Energy Policy for Iowa," published in October 2001:

wwwstate.ia.usldnrlenergy/taskforce/index.htm .

O n the federal level, Senator Harkin has sponsored an energy section to the new farm bill which can be called nothing short of revolutionary He is using the farm bill (long crafted to provide big money to big business) to bring agriculture into the new millennium marketplace of renewable energy

It's clear that Harkin has embraced the vision of the real possibili- ties of renewable energy The bill has passed out of the Senate Ag. Committee and is headed to the Senate floor for debate. Then the bill goes to a SenateIHouse conference committee where it will be "discussed". It is in this committee that we can lose what we have gained. Call your Congressman, particularly Tom Latham - & ask him to support the energy title of the Senate Ag. bill. These representatives are hearing from BIG OIL and BIG PIG, so please let them know their voters are watching. It's better to call than to e-mail. Congressman Latham: (202) 225-5476 - ask for his "Ag. person". Just say it in your own words: "please support renewable

energy in the ag. bill." Latham's e-mail: latham.iao~@mail.house.gov.

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Earthday 2002 Celebration Planned Dear Friends, It's been a long summer and we've learned a lot. We've been very busy planning for Earth Day 2002. This year our theme is more inclusive - a global call to "Protect Our Home." This is great news as it gives us more leeway to include a greater variety of speakers and educational displays.

The Interactive Environmental Conservation & Activism Network will be hosting the "Festival of Life," a community-wide Earth Day celebration, on Saturday; April 27,2002 at Scott County Park in Park View, Iowa.

We would like to have as many examples of "GREEN energy alternatives represented as possible.These will be supplemented by information - & hopefully a display - on the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear waste transport and disposal.

We are also working on a health and home show which will showcase green building materials, natural cleaning products and home-energy audits, with tips on energy conservation. A healthy home is a happy home! Enter the massage therapist, the reiki master, the naturopath and the vegetarian consultant.

In mid-January the Earth Day Network will activate their on-line events calendar. We want to be ready for this with confirmed dates, times, speakers, agendas, etc. That's where you come in -you who are out there everyday showing people the light. Green energy and

environmental awareness should not be hailed as the alternative, but as the norm. This is the only way to truly protect our home, our source of sustenance and our lifeline to the future.

If you or someone from your group would like to help IECANmak e our next "Festival of Life" great, please contact me ASAP at (601) 445- 0369, or e-mail me at wntrlark@hotmail.com. I look forward to working with each and every one of you in the near future. Sincerely; Leslie Perrigo, Coordinator - IECAN Earth Day Network

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Prairiewoods seeks Turbine Donation

Many of you may have seen Don Laughlin's data logger next to the vendor tents at Prairiewoods during the Expo. The data is a bit

disappointing - Prairiewoods' annual wind speed appears to be around 10 mph. The sisters would still like to install a turbine, but in order to make it affordable, they are seeking a used turbine. If anyone knows

of a used turbine that someone would be willing to donate or sell,

please contact: Jonna Higgins-Freese

Environmental Outreach Coordinator Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center

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net-metering Success Alan and Judy Staples of New Providence, Iowa, are finally on line with their 10 kw Bergey EXCEL wind generator. They have signed a contract with Alliant and their new watt-hour meter will record wind generated and grid supplied electricity They will be able to furnish their own power and will be paid two cents per kilowatt hour for their excess electricity

I-Renew Comments on Mid- American's Proposed net-Metering Agreement

We, the Board of the Iowa Renewable Energy Association, would lrke to comment on the net-metering proposal (TF-01-293) made by MidAmerican as part of their legal settlement with the Office of Consumer Affairs.

We applaud the efforts of the IUB and the Department of Justice's OCA to resolve MidAmerican's long-standing dispute with PURPA compliance. The 5ookW h i t for a net-billed facility is laudable. However, we feel that the implementation detailed in MidAmerican's proposed rate schedule is prolbitively unreasonable and expensive. Farm and home owners, businesses, and local, county state, & educational institutions hoping to produce their own electricitywith net-billing would be better served if the IUB were to return the matter to the court system than to accept the tariff filing as-is. We would endorse a revised tariff f h g that changed two aspects of their proposal.

I. Unreasonable technical requirements should be re- moved, and standard equipment should be approved Ljktt~.

The net billing agreement places unreasonable techcal requirements on the small power producer. By the proposed rate schedule, each net-billed facilitywould be required to submit to MidAmerican "evidence for review and approval" that his or her equipment meets a laundry list of criteria. These criteria include obscure specifications that would be prohibitively difficult to document (e.g., the balanced and residual telephone interference factors they require have been superceded by IEEE standards, and are so outdated that no data exist even for generator models that have become intercon- nected in other states.) The criteria also include unreason- able specifications (e.g., a power factor between 95 percent leading and unity during off-peak hours is unreasonable

accord~ng to Bergey Wind, leading U.S. wind turbine manufacturer.) Still other criteria are vague and invite abuse (e.g., "all wiring and other electrical equipment on the net- billed facility's premises" would be required not only to meet National, State, and local Electrical Codes, but also to satisfy "reasonable rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the company from time to time.")

In addition to removing the objectionable criteria, we recommend that MidAmerican maintain a publicly avadable list of acceptable generators, inverters and intertie equipment, and that they accumulate addtional models on that list as they are approved.

2. Unreasonable and vague charges should be replaced with a flat interconnection fee in the $100. range.

MidAmerican's proposal would charge the small producer for "field investigation; legal, information, and negotiating meetings and discussions; and administrative and general costs." The MidAmerican proposal seems like it may not have been made in good faith. Charges should not be left at MidAmerican's discretion. The proposed installation of two meters - more expensive time-basis meters at MidAmerican's discretion - is unnecessary and expensive. The single meter already in place at nearly all individual residences provides all information required for this rate schedule. In deciding whether to collect additional data, MidAmerican should consider the cost of such data collec- tion, a consideration that will only be made if the company bears the cost of the additional meter installation and reading.

The interconnection cost should be standardized. A flat $100. interconnection fee would pay for an inspection

to determine that a system is acceptable before connection.

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Featured System: Recycled Illaterials Become fl Geodesic Greenhouse

This 24' diameter geodesic dome made its first appearance at I- Renew's 2001 Energy Expo as an exhibition booth - covered with a recycled parachute and a tarp for rain protection. It was built over the summer from recycled electrical conduit cut to three specific lengths (115 pieces), with the ends flattened in a vice, then drilled and bolted together at the hubs. After premiering at Expo, it was taken apart (pg. 2) and returned to Catnip Farm, where it has been

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The covering is 6 mil.. clear plastic, kept in place with wooden battens. A second layer will be added soon for further insulation as temperatures decrease. The cover can be rolled up from the bottom during warm days for cool~ng. The entryway is a salvaged

wooden door hinged to a wood frame which is screwed to the pentagonal opening which faces the front porch.

Season extension potential is aided by strawbales placed tightly end to end around the inside and outside perimeters. Within the inside ring of bales are seven 3' x 6' 12" raised beds encased by 6" concrete mesh hoophouses (covered with4 mil, plastic & Goodwill comforters when necessary), a design based on prior season extension trials at this zone 5 farm and loosely on Eliot Coleman's season extension work described in his books "The New Organic Grower" and "Four Season Harvest" . In years past our "mini- hoophouses" have provided us with a variety of greens and root crops well into January, and with the additional protection of the dome we hope to continue our harvest through the winter this year.

The beds were dug, built & planted from 101 12 to 11/21 with arugula, beets, carrots, catnip, cilantro, collards, garlic, kale, lettuce, parsley, peppers, radishes, sage, spinach, tatsoi & turnips. Most of the seeded plants are already ip and thriving - there were more than enough fresh greens for our big Thankgiving salad!

The pepper transplants are enjoying life under flourescents suspended from their hoophouses. An octagon of original lawn turf remains in the center of the dome, with tables, chairs & places for tools. Plants needing more vertical space grow in containers - snow peas for us - corn, oats and rye for the kitties.

For more information about geodesic dome building see wwwdesertdomes.com For more on Eliot Coleman and season extension see http://family~friendlytripod.comlgardeninglorganic/ Eliot-Coleman.htm. To follow our progress this winter visit us at www.geocities.com/catnipfarmdome/index .

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Some of you may have met Craig Howard at past I-Renew events or at MREA. He is Iowa's reigning king of VW diesel to vegetable oil fuel :onversions.

Unlike many who have followed Joshua Tickell's work in his book "From Fryer to the Fuel Tank" and converted waste vegetable oil to biodiesel, Zraig has made several of his own unique innovations in order to bypass :he step of manufacturing the biodiesel, and runs his VW rabbits on 3ure vegetable oil.

3n his web site he shows some of these innovations; a heated fuel tank md fuel line among them, all made from salvaged parts.

Zraig loves to share information, and he has done some great work here. 2ook for the Fatmobile at a Renewable Energy event near you!

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