Hello.
A little background, and maybe some questions that folks can answer. I do
want to use solar, wind, stove heat and biodiesel for my energy needs.
I'm finishing up a 12'x16' two story (loft is 2nd) cabin. Time for me
to consider the installation locations for said. On the south side
of the cabin/house I'm planning on the front door (let the snow melt
off sooner), and also a 6-8' deep deck (haven't decided how much, but
leaning towards 8 foot) and a green house (got the 41 panes of older
glass for 7 bucks, yippie). I want to put in a hottub/dummyload/heatlocker
that will take overload load from the 10' gennie I'm building (just started
on the blades, and going to build the DanB style 3 blade, dual rotor axial
system), along with taking heat going out the stack from the stove, and
also finally get some solar power from the sun in the greenhouse (the tub
is going to be in the greenhouse for moisture, relaxation, and also heat
that will keep the greenhouse warm during the winter months at night.
So, in all, does this sound pretty good, other ideas I'm missing out?
The stove is going to be just on the other side of the wall in the house
from the tub/greenhouse (south side of cabin), and I was also thinking
the gennie (likely to buy a FuKing or something in the future) would
be near that location also to tie into the electrical... The panels
of the active solar system, will part (top panels) of the sloped portion
of the greenhouse (goes up 6 feet, and then leans into the house at about
32 degs off top dead center which is optimal at this latitude).
Hope I have done this right in design, and am very open to alteratives that
will save me wire, time, energy and money.
One concern, do I need to be concerned about overheating with 3-4 sources
of energy going into the tub BTW, I'm going to be collecting and
filtering the roofwater... My other thoughts are snow pack retention on
the roof. I want a 12 over 12 pitch, and I know that is SUPER steep but
I need the headroom due to the loft having Thompson 2' footer walls
and the building being 12' wide and gables on this smaller end for hopefully
obvious reasons (south facing and also end where the entrance door). Propanel
is too slippery and the L brackets I have heard don't do a good job unless
very heavy steel and big (3 inches off the roof surface)... Should I do
regular shingles for snow pack retention and filter the water to get out any
petrolium products that run off with the water from said shingles, or propanel
and put heavy L brackets and pray the 12 over 12 isn't too steep?
Well, thanks, and good luck with your heatexchanger, I personally believe heat
going up the stack is one of the biggest losses and we can make much better
use of that energy.
SDO-aka-Todd