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10/29/08
Radiators work on steam. Once cooled and converted back to liquid form the water is returned to the furnace to be reheated & redistrubuted as steam. How does pumping hot water through this hose equate to the same thing and be capable of heating an entire room?
I mean it seems to me you'll just end up with a hot tube which isn't nearly as fun as a hot tub.
10/29/08
Radiators don't work on steam, it's just extremely hot water going through it that will heat the material it's made of.
10/30/08
[en.wikipedia.org]
10/29/08
10/29/08
You could insulate the return line so it doesn't bleed heat off the hot line. Regardless, there will be loss from beginning to end so will it really matter?
10/29/08
As for the lowered efficiency; tek_nic is right, some of the heat dissipated would be absorbed by the cooler return coil. It would be roughly 75% as efficient thermodynamically speaking, but much, much more manageable.
And no, the pair would not need to twist :) I actually think a flat version would be more useful.
10/29/08
10/29/08
I think that depends on how this all works - is it a hollow tube through which hot water flows (in which case no fire danger) or is it just a flexible element?
translation from the site:
"Ciussaì is moving a radiator, available to answer the most diverse preferences can be hung on a nail on the wall and twisted, just like a cane to water in a twisted stretches along a spiral arm of steel fixed to the wall, which function appendiasciuga of clothes, twisted on the ground and then moved at will in different parts of the house, depending on where you want to be the source of heat. In some applications is also above the blankets, to warm the beds."
Looks like it's water-based, so all safe : )
10/29/08
10/29/08