Electric Heating Systems

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Many a home owner on the look out for something new to replace an old, inefficient heating system probably knows a thing or two about the exceptional efficiency of geothermal heat pumps. But few people are aware of the new 95% efficient condensing boilers fueled by natural gas.While a geothermal heat pump’s 350% efficiency far outstrips that of a 95% efficient condensing boiler, higher...

According to the National Fire Protection Assoc. (NFPA) heating equipment was the second leading cause of home fires and home fire deaths. The heating equipment category includes central heating, fixed and portable space heaters and wood stoves. Of these, fixed space heaters (wall mounted or freestanding propane heaters) accounted for 17% of the fires and 28% of the civilian deaths. Portable...

I have enhanced the Green Energy (Eu) website. If you take a look at the thumbnail in this post, there are two reasons why I changed things.a) The sidebar on the right hand side contained links nobody was clicking on.b) As a result of the right-hand sidebar, the actual page content was being squeezed too thin and was forcing certain content and display choices which were always compromises.It was time to remove that sidebar. With it gone, the whole site has opened up. It looks gre...

One of the big advantages of Infrared heating is in the absence of maintenance costs and its massive half-life. Not only does this give an owner considerable peace of mind, but it constitutes one of the big "hidden issues" (and costs) of gas or oil boilers.The materials used in Redwell Infrared heaters, certainly, are sealed-for-life at manufacture and contain no moving parts. Components used in Redwell Infrared heaters have a life expectancy of 100+ years, giving the heaters at least a half-life of 50 years.Compare this with a boiler which at the very least requires annual cleaning if not actual servicing of the igniter points, injector or blower. And a boiler's maximum life is only 25 years (quite apart from its massive reduction in energy-efficiency past year 5 which increases its running...

In what follows, I can only vouch for the Redwell brand of infra red heaters and not for other brands which may not be as well coated or electrically as stable.For heaters that are designed to operate within close reach of people then the answer is "these heaters are safe". There is the Redwell Sittingwave heater, which is designed to be sat on, and has an element surface temperature of 65⁰C which is comparable to a centrally heated water-filled radiator. All other non-ceiling-mounted and non-industrial heaters have an element surface temperature of 95⁰C. Whilst ostensibly this is "too hot to touch", Redwell's mitigation for this is to apply a thermally non-conductive powder coating to the stanless steel casing of the heaters, which enables temporary contact with the unit without scalding....