Heat storage / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...heat stored in mass inside the building envelope, it will slow the temperature drop and possibly prevent you from needing to seek shelter elsewhere until the power comes back. Heating during off-peak hours: If you rely on radiant heat from thermal mass such as heated concrete floors, this can make heating with elect...

...heating and cooling. It would also compliment an envelope first building design philosophy to limit the neat for heating and cooling.  With very little testing information available we're not comfortable making claims as to how well this or any other such products work, how long they will continue to work, and whether ...

...heated coils from a solar collector. Through that same tank runs another coil that is extracting the heat to pump it through your radiant floor or whatever other heating distribution system you have.  Specific heat capacity: If you take solid paraffin (heat capacity Cp = 2.5 kJ/kg·K and heat of fusion of 210 kJ/kg), le...