The Rural Voice, 1978-07, Page 13Hemingway has, he's not losing that much heat out of the
building.
Mr. Fleming said he knows of one other solar heated livestock
operation in Embro that has been going for a year longer than
Mr. Hemingway's and there were at least one or two m$re being
planned in this general area.
There really hasn't been that much done in farm buildings in
Ontario. Most of the solar heating has been in the area of grain
and corn drying, Mr. Fleming said.
He thought that in the future more people would be into solar
energy but to a lesser degree.
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Tony McQuail, project co-ordinator of the Lucknow Energy
Conservation Centre said that Mr. Hemingway's barn is as far as
he knows the only solar heated hog barn on that scale in Huron
County.
Different kinds of material such as transparent polyethelene or
glass can be used but Mr. McQuail said the fiberglass is longer
lasting than plastic polyethelene, and it's lighter than glass and
easier to work with.
"1 think if anyone is putting one (a barn) up in which
they're goi ng to need extra heat, solar is very much worth
considering," Mr. McQuail says.
Scientific knowledge has always played a great part in
devising new and better methods of helping the farmer and that
knowledge has helped Neil Hemingway to have what is for now,
a unique livestock heating system in Huron County.
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