[Strawbale] Sub Floor Radiant Heating

[Derek Roff]

>> The practicality of seasonal heat storage is controversial.
>> I believe that it is impossible to create a cost-effective, 
functional
>> residential system, if you are storing heat in earth.
>
> Here is a link to one way it might be done.
>
> http://greenershelter.org/index.php?pg=2

No information is given on the site about heat flow and temperature 
gradients, nor is any data offered from the two example houses shown. 
I don't believe the system described at this site has any chance of 
providing comfortable heating to a house.

Among its problems is a lack of any way to regulate the heat flowing 
into the house through the floor, from the heat-storing earth below the 
house.  If you could store enough heat, at a high enough temperature 
(after three years), to help heat your house on a cold winter's day, 
then that floor would be putting out uncomfortable heat during the rest 
of the year.

Derelict

Derek Roff
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University of New Mexico
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