Abstract Formatting Form
The following form will accept all necessary information for creation of your abstract, enable you to write your abstract on this page, and enable you to view your abstract and submission data for accuracy and acceptability. Accuracy is entirely your responsibility. No spelling or grammar checks will be done by the recipient. Questions may be directed to Susanna.Gross@colorado.edu.
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Suggested Commission A - Electromagnetic Metrology A - Electromagnetic Metrology B - Fields and Waves C - Signals and Systems D - Electronics and Photonics E - Electromagnetic Noise and Interference F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing G - Ionospheric Radio and Propagation H - Waves in Plasma J - Radio Astronomy K - Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine
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Please enter your abstract text below (minimum 250 words, maximum approximately the size of the box). No figures are allowed. This submission should be plain ASCII or LaTeX markup for equations. Leave a blank line between paragraphs, and type a "\" before special characters like \$, \# and \% and \_ (this should be done on text throughout this submission form that uses these characters; it does not apply just to this abstract text section). Click here for some simple LaTeX documentation You can transfer a pre-written abstract into this box with the "paste" function of your browser. We own 35 acres of land in the Ghost Mine Ranch subdivision on the west side of the San Luis Valley, 8 miles north of Del Norte. The climate of the San Luis Valley is cold but very sunny, making it suitable for a solar heated house. The current weather is measured by our weather station. All of the electricity used by the house is generated with a photovoltaic system. A solar hot water system provides nearly all of the hot water heating for the house. Our manufactured house is set on a basement of passive solar design, which collects sunlight and stores energy to heat the house. It is off the utility grid except for propane delivery and wireless communications. The Guerdon manufactured house was built with R45 insulation in the ceiling, but otherwise it is little different from other mobile homes built to HUD construction standards. Its windows are not optimized for solar gain, and are not particularly numerous on the south side. However, the south side of the basement is covered with windows which collect solar energy that is stored in concrete basement walls and gravel under the slab. Heat from the basement is circulated into the house through a system of vents and a computer-controlled fan. We have measured the solar heating performance of the design. During the 2005-2006 heating season the backup furnace ran for only 34 hours. During the colder and much cloudier 2006-2007 heating season the backup furnace ran for 83 hours. A poster (0.9 MB PDF) presented at the Joint CU/NREL Energy Symposium (October 3, 2006) describes the solar design and performance of the system. A slide presentation (1.3 MB PDF) given at the University of Colorado Civil Engineering building systems seminar (February 8, 2007) describes the design process, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.