Cozier Homes | Green Energy News

December 5, 2004 – Vol.9 No.37

COZIER HOMES.

Given top ranking for efficient heating systems for homes and other buildings is hydronic radiant floor heating - warm water running through serpentine piping just below a floor’s surface. Not only is it the most loved heating system in terms of efficiency, it is also the most comfortable to live with - say goodbye to dry skin with hydronic radiant floor heating.

Unfortunately, in-floor hydronic heating is probably best suited for new homes and commercial buildings, or heavily remodeled ones. Adding this system to an existing building is a monumental (read expensive) task.

What owners of lived-in, worked-in buildings need is a new kind of radiant heating technology that can be easily, inexpensively added to existing buildings. Picture something like this: a material that could be rolled out, connected to a source of energy then allowed to heat a room, evenly, comfortably and efficiently.

Bio-Warm Corporation produces products which it describes as radiant heating textiles that the company claims could be a form of radiant floor heating. Its heating textiles could be used as a mat under existing floor coverings, such as carpeting. (Presumably a thin carpeting to let the most of the heat flow through.)

Perhaps this is one of those technologies that should be closely examined as a new way to heat homes with electricity, comfortably and efficiently.

Bio-Warm has announced it has a purchase order in hand totaling $6,000,000 from Datsarom Mattress Company of Ansan, Korea. The heating textiles are to be used as mattress warmers. If mattresses why not whole houses? Visit Bio-warm at http://www.bwarm.net/ .