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SOLAR PANELS -Hayden Gozzard, of Lakeside, has installed solar panels on the
roof of' his large A frame house, which is still undei• construction. The panels are
made of inexpensive barn roofing metal, and will be covered with glass to trap the
sun's heat. Water pumped up from a basement storage tank through pipes in the
Stone 'chimney will flow over the panels, to provide,at least 30 percent of the heat
the home will need in the winter. He hopes to install wind powered electrical-
generators when the solar system is completed. (Expositor Photo)
in a solar he.afing sYstern's overall
efficiency: and Gozzard says
..he must experiment until a
perfect match beiween the
heating and storage capacity of
the system is found.
When the .home was built, an
opening. was left in the. basement
floor. The exposed earth will be
excavated by hand •to create • a
reservoir of between 6,000 and
,.10,000 gallons capacity. This hole
will be lined with' a layer of six
millimenter polyethylene. then
insulated • • with styrofoam
sheeting, and all inner liner of
and says he may paint his panels .
again before the system ' is
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Collect in trough
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water will collect in a trough at
the bottom of the panels, and feed
by gravity into a larger reservoir
under the baSenern. The size...DS.%
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Hayden Gozzard, of Lakeside.
Ontario, has' never been swayed
by the sceptics. An accomplished
rally driver, winner of the Shell
5000, backyard builder 'of a
concrete yacht and partner in a
Renault dealership in London, he
has set his sights ,on a new
challenge, solar heating,
Experts still say it can't be
done, and so vast amounts are
being spent on the development
of conventional sources ofenergy,
but across Canada people with
little scientific knowledge and a
flair for inventiveness are making,
solar heating a reality.
Sitting in the living room of the
huge A frame house he built
himself, Mr. Gozzard explains
why he deeide.d to defy the
skeptics. ''I'm an explorer" he
says. "I like to do something
different".
The "something different" this
time is the creation of a workable
solar • heating system that will
provide much of the warmth for
his 2,300 square foot home.
"People will tell you it's
impossible" he says, but . with
simple nititerialiad-araVel'y l ow
cost, he has a system that will be
in operation by this summer.
An Afterthought
Installing solar heating in his
house was an afterthought he
says.. .He liked A frame designs:
and purchased the. plans for -his
present' home' from a magazine
where, the design had appeared.
By a fortunate circumstance, the
front of. his house' faces west,
meaning that the vast roof has a
southern exposure on one side.
He shingled the roof himself,
and explains that when he came
towork on the south facing half of
the roof, he was struck by the
heat the sun was generating on.its
surface. Instead of . installing the
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cheap metal sheeting of the type
A used in barn too fi ng, and had the
•'7"basis of' hi4 solar panels. 60
. percent or 1,500-square feet of the
• • south facing roof was 'finished in
this way.
' • The peak of the roof rises 42 -
.feet, and its 58 degree. angle is
close to the 51 degree ideal, for
solar: collecting at This latitude. A
Tinge .Stone fireplace rising
through the livingroom to the roof
carries the 3/4 inch copper piping.
that will supply water to the top of
the panels. Since all plumbing for
the system is inside the house,
freezing shouldn't be a problem
even on the coldest days Mr.
Gozzard says. Because of the
money he saved on shingles, he
estimates that the main elements
of the systein, including the
plumbing, which he did himself,
•have cost only $20. so far.
Two Ways
Mr, Gozzard explained that
there are two ways of using water
heated by the sun to warm a
home. One method pipes the
water to radiators in rooms
throughout the house. The other
-method, and the one which Mr.
Gozzard favors, stores heated
water in large tanks. Water has a
high specific heat value, which
means it can store a large amount
of energy, In a system like Mr.
Gozzard's , heat can be' stored
duringwarm summer months and
used to warm the house in cold
winter months.
Some solar heating systems
warm air by passing it over tanks
filled with water heated by the
panels. The tanks must be
contained in an insulated room,
and a' re Soffietliffe-SairrOlindedhY
rocks ,to provide rapid heat
transfer to a large volume of
air.The heated air can then be fan
forced throughout the • house, ,.
supplementing or completely
replacing conventional furnaces.
Another solar experimenter, Carl
"Pete" Pepper of R.R.I,
Granton, has had excellent
results with this type of system.
Mr.. Gozzard's system will pass
the heated w ater through a heat
exchanger inside a conventional
oil furnace. A number of
commercially
are
.heat
exchangers are available for this.
purpose. In this way, M. r.
Gozzard hopes to provide at least
30 percent of the heat his ho,use
kill need - Winter.
Water will he pumped up to the
top of his solar panels by a
conventional pressure pumping
system of the type used for home
wells..It will then fall 30 feet doWn
the surface of the panels,
absorbing the sun's' heat.
Runs Freely
In an "open" system like the
one Mr. Gozzard is using, the
water is allowed to run freely over
the entire panel .surface. More
expensive, though not necessarily
more efficient "closed" solar
collection systems generally paSs
polyethylene applied. The tank
will be sealed with a moisture
proof insulating 'cover. Should he
want to increase the size of his
reservoir, it . will be a simple
procedure to dig the hole a little
deeper and re-line it Mr. GoZiard
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Mr . Gozzard says two fairly large
expenses will be incurred before
all is running smoothly. The solar
panels must be covered with glass
to trap the sun's heat, and this is
the biggest single expense of a
Kolar heating system, Mr Gozzard
says. He plans to install the glass
himself hrsheets of at least three
feet by 18 inches, and frame them
so that one sheet can be replaced
easily if it breaks. The steepness
of the roof means that snow load
should not be a problem on the
glass, Mr . Gozzard says.
, The second expense he will
face is the purchase of heat
sensing devices that will turn the
water pump on and off, feeding
water over the panels wher eghe
temperature on them exceded the
temperature of the water in the
reservoir' by several degrees.
These, sensors are similar in
principle to the thermostats which
turn conventional furnaces on and
off. They are available from a
number of electronics companies
Mr-Gozzard says, and can cost as ,
much as $300.
Simplicity.
The great advantage of a
system like Mr. Gozzard's is its
r Neither sophisticated
machinery nor extensive scientific
knowledge were required to build
it. The A frame style of his house
is the best possible for solar panel
installation because the angled_
roof provides a perfect place to
mount the panels. And since they
are fixed to the roof, no heat can
be lost from the back of the —
panels.
The roof has been extensively
insulated to cut interior heat loss.
In addition, any heat lost from the
storage reservoir will be lost into
the basement of his house.
Mr--,Gozzard.. sees his solar
heating system as only a first step
toward energy self-sufficiency.
He hopes to design and install
wind powered generators for the
house as well, and platforms to
hold them and wiring to carry the
electricity they Will produce are
already built on the roof of the
home. In addition, he plans to
install more panels if the system
is a success., There is room to
install a further 600 square feet of
solar collectors on the 2,500
square feet south facing half of
the roof he says.
Mr, Gpzzard is cautious about
the potential of his system."One
can't help but believe half these
critics who say it can't be done".:
He is hoping the system will be 30
percent efficient 'in heating his
home mil K turns out to be $0
percent efficient "then be
happy" he says.
There is little doubt that as
conventional sources of energy
are exhausted and costs rise,
solar energy must be made to
take over the bulk of our energy
requirements. each experiment
by back yard designers moves all
of us closer to cleaner and
cheaper energy. People like
Hayden Gozzard, who are proving
the skeptics wrong and showing
us that solar heating can 1:1 09,R ,
cheaply and easily today; are"
pioneers in a new and challenging
frontier of energy development.
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water over the panels in 'small
tubes. Because copper is an
excellent heat condOctOr, it is
often, used for these small tubes,
It 'can also be used for the
collector plates, but the costs of
such a system are very high.
Some commerclally 11 Calved
systems ii,sing copper rind other
•expensivelnaterials cost as
as $30 qr $40 per. square foot.
Using cheaper materials like
the till that Mr. Gozzard'Chose for
his panels, and adapting available
devices and technology means
that a practical solar heating
system can be built fo'r less than
one dollar per square foot.
The surface of Mr. Gozzard's
panels are painted flat black.
Since installing , them, he has
learned that experimenters at the
University of Waterloo have
found that a 'dark green-Colour is
About 10 percent more efficient
than black_ for solar collectibn,
says.
-,I4trge Expenses .
Though. he has tried to make
. his system as cheaply as possible,
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