Solar Underfloor Heating
Solar Underfloor Heating
The Lindell Family Lives “One Tonne Life” With a Eco-Smart Wooden House, an Electric Car and Advanced Energy Solutions …
GOTHENBURG – January 22, 2011: The technology and the solutions that the Lindell family use to live the “One Tonne Life” are already available or will become available in the very near future.
Can you help me with ecological lighting solutions?
I am building an energy efficient house. I’m installing solar panels for water heating, and aerothermic underfloor heating, as well as extra good insulation. I’m now thinking about lighting. Can anyone advise me about the comparative efficiencies of halogen v other light bulbs? The house should benefit from plenty natural light as there are large glass windows.
If you are building right now, look at T5 or T8 fluorescent lamps. The T simply refers tot he diameter of the tube. A T12 is 1″ in diameter and a T8 is 8/12 or 2/3″ in diameter. If you need point lighting, consider LED’s. Understand though that many of these are monochromatic – they only give off one color. A few LED’s now are polychromatic and produce a more natural color or light. You’ll have to hunt for them though. If you can wait just a while longer organic LED’s or OLEDs will be showing up soon. SOme of these are truely organic but this family of lights is carbon based.
You also mentioned large windows. You will be better served to have your contractor install light shelves. You have probably seen the glare that can come from the sun shining directly in a large window. It makes the rest of the room look dull. A light shelf eliminates this problem. A light shelf lets sunlight come in an upper window that is not directly visible from the floor. Instead the light bounces off of a shelf and upper walls of that room for just a few feet. Then the shelf ends and the light is now diffuse enough that it lights all parts of your room equally.
Sky lights with short tunnels in your ceilings work much the same way. You can also add light tubes to your house. These light tubes collect sunlight from your roof just like a sky light. That light though is trapped inside a shiny metal tube. You can extend these tubes all the way down to a basement if you want. A diffuser on the end of the tube glows just like an electric lamp when the sun is shining.
I would not consider halogen or other types of lamps. Many of them are not made for residential use. When they are, the quality of light is often poor. Look underneath a halogen or a mercury vapor lamp and yu’ll see the color distortion.
Nu-Heat Guide to Underfloor Heating (3 of 3)
[SMP_MESSAGE]
Related posts:
- Solar Underfloor Heating Systems solar underfloor heating systems Underfloor Heating – Cozy And Comfortable Ambience Underfloor heating has been commonly used in northern Europe for quite some time now, but in the recent years, it has been adapted in other parts of the world as well. They can be installed both in the fresh builds or the existing property [...]...
- Warm Water Underfloor Heating warm water underfloor heating Letters, January 6, 2011, part one SIR – Your correspondent, who rightly complained about the Government’s move to increase university tuition fees, still misses the main point over the appalling mismanagement by the previous Labour government of our national finances. hi, i have a valliant ecotec combination boiler.? the boiler is [...]...
- Gas Underfloor Heating gas underfloor heating World Plastic Pipes Market to Exceed 6.5 Billion Meters by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts … GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the Plastic Pipes market. World plastic pipes market is projected to exceed 6.5 billion meters by 2015, driven by heavy infrastructure investments [...]...