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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-04-05, Page 48gr Page 16--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, April 12, 1978 ,kms Zy.AZFvv;#Sf•7 The Lucknow District Community Centre is completely closed in and plumbers and electricians are working so the building will be finished for the first booking in May. [Sentinel Staff Photo] Energy conservation makes sense BY TONY McQUAIL • This column is prepared by your Energy Conservation Cen- tres in Lucknow and Goderich and in the coming weeks will deal with many aspects of energy use and" conservation approaches. Before we can talk about energy conservation, we have to have an understanding of what energy is and how we use it. It is easier to say how we use energy than to define it. Almost every- thing we dowses some type of energy. In. fact, nothing happens in our lives, our society, or the universe without energy. The food we eat contains energy, the fuels we burn contain energy, the electricity we use is a type of energy. We are always using energy. There are two "laws" which describe the behaviour of energy in the universe: The first states Lucknow Legion Dance Saturday, April 15th Musk by Ian Wilbee LES PETTER SHOES LUCK NOW LORNE REID PHONE 528-2011 SHOE REPAIR SKATE SHARPENING Ripley Minor Softball Organization Meeting Thursday, April 13 Ripley Huron Com. Centre Let allar I s«npliritq show your why . our large drying drum and vacuum drying gives you more efficient drying! Low heat and high air-flow— Simplicity's unbeatable combination of safe, clean, economical drying! Five push-button temperature sel- ector for Perma-Press, regular and two automatic dry cycles. Features a fluorescent panel Tight, interior light, handy door -mount lint trap and Acrylic finished drying drum. Take a closer look at Simplicity—it's quality through and through! GREER T V s ELECTRIC PHONE 5284112 - LUCKNOW ....iii$ that the total amount of energy is constant. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. The energy in a gallon of gas is not lost when you burn it in a car engine. The energy has been converted into heat and forward motion and the amount of energy in the heat and motion is the same as was present in the gas. A change has taken place though. The usefulness of the energy has decreased. This brings us to the. second -law regarding energy. It states that any transformation of energy increases the disorder or random- _ ness of the energy. Energy flows from high quality areas, such as the high temperature in the engine cylinder, to low quality areas, such as the exhaus$. Eventually all the energy in the universe will be degraded to a large amount of. low quality energy. It is the second law regarding energy which is important to keep in mind as we use energy. The first law tells us we will never run out of energy, but the second law warns us that it is the quality of the energy which is important. High quality energy can be used to do work, but once it is used its ability to do more work is lost. When we talk about saving or conserving energy we are talking about using our. .high .quality energy resources wisely, so that we do not wastefully convert them to low grade energy. Future columns will look at types of energy, ways to conserve energy and save money and future energy, sources. If you have ideas or questions regarding this col- umn, please send or bring them to • the Energy Conservation Centres, 36A West St., Goderich; 524-4114 or Campbell Street, Lucknow, 528-3304. Upcoming activities at the Centres include a Solar Workshop in Goderich, April ` 13 at 7.30 p.m. and in Lucknow, April 22 at 1.30 p.m. For more information contact the Centre nearest you. , Bruce education tax up Taxpayers will be paying about 4.2 per cent more in education tax this year. The Bruce County Board of education approved its new budget of $21,520,214.00, an increase of .6.8 per cent over the 1977 budget of $20,147,387. Cam MacAuley, finance chair- man, said, "During the past few years, and particularly 'in 1976 and now again in 1978, the province of Ontario has . reduced the rate of grants paid to county school boards. "This results in a larger proportion of the costs of educa- tion being levied on local munic- ipalities, thusly ,on local taxpay- ers. The board of education tax requisition to the municipalities has increased from $5,380,442 to $5,832,181 an increase of 8.4 per cent. ' The assessments of the munic- ipalities in the county has grown in the past year. Therefore, the board's tax requisition )will be spread over this enlarged assess- ment with the result the tax increase to the individual taxpay- er will be about 4.2 per cent on average. However, changes in local assessment will bring differ- ences in the board's requisition on each municipality. Mr. MacAuley said, "The new school' being built in Kincardine will not have a great impact on the budget in 1978 as debenture paymentswon't begin until t 1979."