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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-08-30, Page 5Preview of Energy Alternatives Four Three area homes which utilize alternative forms of energy and energy conservation ,measures were open Friday to a sneak preview of the Energy Alternatives Tour. The MeQuail home, Lucknow; the Mitchell home, Clinton and the Zurbrigg home in Goderich are three of the homes in Huron County which will be featured in the tour, sponsored by the Lucknow/Goderich Energy Conservation Centre. The tours, in co-operation with the Huron Alternate Energy and Lifestyle Group and CANTDU, will be held between 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, September 9. Tickets are available from the ECC office on Campbell Street, Lucknow. "The purpose of this tour is to help people learn about how solar energy, wind power, wood heating and energy conservation are being used now in actual homes in Huron County," explained Donna Hazelden of the planning committee. It is hoped that by having a number of homes open which demonstrate energy conserving devices, solar heaters, woodstoves, windmills, heat pumps etc. the public will have a better understanding of real working or developing systems rather than models or demonstrations. The McQuails have built a passive solar home with a greenhouse that they hope will provide a tropical -like green space in the midst of -' a white winter. Tony McQuail feels that this will help halt that urge to fly south during the bad weather. A water pumping windmill supplies water to the house and barn. They hope to have a wind generator shortly. The McQuails use an ashley wood heating system as a back up to their passive solar design. They feel that their yearly energy bill is less than $100. The Mitchells, Clinton, live in a 107 year old stone school house which they purchased in 1971. From 1972 to 1975; the Mitchells insulated their home and installed a franklin style wood stove (a style which they feel is inefficient and have recently replaced) and they found that their oil consumption was reduced by almost 50%. This year they hope to reduce their oil consumption even further - to below 200 gallons - with the installation of their air tight steel, stove. Harry Mitchell has also harnessed the sun's power with a small roof mounted collector for heating his domestic water. The collector was homemade from a copper sheet with 1/2'; copper tubing and is insulated with 2" styrofoam. A recycled storm window was used to cover the, collector. The cost of this homebuilt collector and water heating system was well below $300. As Mr. Mitchell explained, "There's no need for solar energy to be expensiveor technically difficult. It's so simple and I would like everyone to realize that." The third home that was on display is that of the Zurbriggs in Goderich. This brand new home was built to utilize the sun as well as using energy conserving devices in its construction. It was constructed with 2 x 6" studs with R20 insulation in the walls and R40 in the ceiling. Their kitchen is large, bright and airy. It combines the new with old. Gerry Zurbrigg uses an energy conserving style microwave oven and hopes to have the woodstove, built in 1929, hooked and functional very shortley. Three very different homes but each utilizes conservation measures and alternate energy. They are building a conserver society. The homes were a sampling of the fifteen homes that will be featured in this novel type of tour. /1111. HARVEST OF OUR BEST QUALITY PURE Ground Beef 3LB. 2 ACK SPECIALS IN EFFECT THROUGH SAT.. SEPT. 2 CANADA -PACKERS PART SLICES Thrifty Bacon SAVE 30° LB. lb99c MAPL-E LEAF ECONOMY Bulk Weiners MAPLE LEAF Sweet Pickled Cottage Rolls SAVE 404 LB. 3 to 5 LB. AVERAGE I Tomatoes aoT. 9•94 Peaches 4QT. Ib. 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