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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VIDEOTAPE LOANS FOR TRANSFER TO HELICAL SCAN

1981-0139

Vidéo

1 of 1

1978-05-28

1978-06-06

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director/producer, Garnet Anthony; executive producer, Dolores MacFarlane; photography, Buddy Stanton

Television documentary program on the use of windmills as supplementary sources of energy, including the research conducted at the National Research Council to make these devices more cost-effective. A brief history of the windmill is outlined, followed by interviews with farmers who have used them for pumping water and as electrical generators. Doctor David Panner, President of the Northern Alberta chapter Solar Energy Society, demonstrates how to make a homemade model; Honourable Alastair Gillespie, Minister of Energy, discusses government objectives for energy conservation and development of renewable energy; Jack Templin, Canada's leading authority on wind power, talks about N.R.C.'s new vertical rotar type design, and university students in Alberta show their version of the N.R.C. model to their professor; also shown is the world's largest windmill developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cleveland, Ohio. <30mn>

English

61-2-2136-8001

Libre

V1 8104-0035
V1 2000-02-0037

GAD 0FD547

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