Just visited a friend who showed me his old electrical heat large storage unit, located in a cupboard which reheats with cheap power overnight and it uses air fans to distribute heat around his home. I was aware of small wall mounted storage heaters but not this size. Also the amount of stored heat in hot water cylinders being removed for combi boilers. i wonder if it would make a comeback in this age of green energy?
Warm air heating is very good as it works quickly to warm a house when turned on. It can distribute dust though, and some air fans can be noisy. But overall it is a good idea. The smaller night storage heaters work on a similar principle but one is needed in each area to be heated.
Perhaps a system could be designed to store heat from "green sources," perhaps in a big brick storage unit under a house or in spare area of a house.
I have seen a stored heat system that stored the heat in a large tank of water heated by several immersion heaters. It was a wet system to radiators. They appear to be rare though.
Warm air heating is very good as it works quickly to warm a house when turned on. It can distribute dust though, and some air fans can be noisy. But overall it is a good idea. The smaller night storage heaters work on a similar principle but one is needed in each area to be heated.
Perhaps a system could be designed to store heat from "green sources," perhaps in a big brick storage unit under a house or in spare area of a house.
I have seen a stored heat system that stored the heat in a large tank of water heated by several immersion heaters. It was a wet system to radiators. They appear to be rare though.
