Re: electric heat in Tasmania | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Ian Higginbottom (Ian.Higginbottomml.csiro.au) | |
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 19:19 CDT |
Thanks to those who replied to my question about radiant ceiling heat. Our common house is built to lock up and has a timber floor (which we will eventually insulate). We get only about 20 nights per winter with the night minimum below freezing and maybe one night a year with a minimum below -5 deg C. Some info on heating costs here, just for your info, or so you can understand our choice of resistive heating. electricity for domestic heating is AUS$0.062 per kWh gas (liquid petrolium gas) is .075 per kWh wood (good dry) is aus $60 per 1000 Kg (I have not tried to convert that to energy terms or to US units) When you take into account maintanence costs and depreciation of the heater electric heating stacks up well. According to the salespeople hear radiant ceiling heat does not primarily heat the air near the celing. It is radiant so it heats the floor, walls and furniture in the room and all of those things along with the ceiling heat the air. In theory it is the one form of heating (along with floor heating) that does not require a fan in the ceiling to stir the air up. Cheers, Hig Cascade Cohousing
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Re: electric heat in Tasmania Ian Higginbottom, September 29 1994
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