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Eric Chidester (left) and Tim Rogers of PJ's Plumbing and Heating install some of the
5,000 lineal feet of 1/2-inch PEXa tubing for radiant heating in the ecosmart house.
An additional 900 lineal feet of tubing is installed for the snow and ice melting system
in the home's driveway.
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"One of the drawbacks of trying to sell homeowners on the advantages of installing an energy-efficient heating system using radiant, geothermal or solar thermal technologies is the lack of real numbers to back up performance claims. Most energy performance numbers are based on computer modeling of how building occupants will use the systems.
Those numbers rarely come close to how human beings actually use their heating and cooling systems.
Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman, along with sponsor REHAU, are about to change that perception."
Read the entire article here.
