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With all the current talk of an emerging energy-glutted decade, the potential ownerbuilder may wonder if making an energy efficiency statement in a new home makesany sense. We surely have to see through this cloud to know that energy shortfall inthe 70's will pale by comparison to what lies ahead in the 90's. The growingmovement of clear -sighted owner builders will continue to show the rest of thepopulation that our living room comfort can, by connecting to our abundantambient solar energy, release us from the tyranny of tenuous foreign energysupplies.In a recent interview, Douglas Balcomb, our foremost passive solar researcher -spokesperson, said that the viability of passive solar h as become an established fact,and the use of direct-gain spaces, sunspaces, and Trombe walls (in that order) willbe with us for a long time.352