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in the Supplemental Budget $30,000 for this
purpose ] ].

WHEREAS, The United States is facing an energy
crisis of paralyzing proportion; and

WHEREAS, Americans have grown used     to unlimited

supplies of inexpensive fuels to power their  automobiles,

and to generate electricity for their       homes and
businesses; and

WHEREAS, The energy supply problem has become
cruelly tangible, as factories have been forced to lay
off workers or shutdown, and commuters have been having
great difficulty getting gasoline; and

WHEREAS, The shortage of fossil fuels necessitates
the use of alternative energy sources for the generation
of electricity, the heating and cooling of homes and
businesses as well as the supplying of hot water so that
the scarcer fossil fuels can be used where alternative
sources of energy are unfeasible; and

WHEREAS, There is a need to exploit new sources of
energy of which solar energy is the most abundant, the
most widely distributed and ecologically safe; and

WHEREAS, The energy dispersed by the sun is so great
that the amount falling on Lake Erie in one day is
greater than the present U.S. energy consumption for one
day; and

WHEREAS, The area of central Maryland near Baltimore
has, over the past thirty years, been receiving an
average of about 2,580 hours of sunshine per year, which
is a sufficient supply of energy for supplementary
heating and cooling of residential structures, and for
supplying them with hot water; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
the Maryland Academy of Sciences is requested to
consider, design and establish a demonstration facility
at their new Science Center that will use solar energy
for heating, cooling and hot water supply to the largest
extent practicable; and further, that the Academy is
advised to consult on this project with the University of
Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University, in addition to
all other sources of advice and information that say
appear desirable; and be it further

[[RESOLVED, That the Governor of Maryland is

requested to include in the Supplemental Budget for

1974-75 $30,000 for the purpose of aiding in the

establishment of the Solar Energy Demonstration Facility
at the new Maryland Academy of Sciences Center; and be it