NEW ELECTRIC HEATING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 13

NEW ELECTRIC HEATING.

* _ If the best results are to bo obtained from any. form of heat for warming, rooms or _ buildings, a big surface at a comparatively low temperature must l>e chosen in preference to a email surface at a high temperature. This fact has been taken advantage of in & new method of ■warming houses by eleotricity (says "Chambers's Journal"). The heating elements are. embodied in draught-screens, wall-panels, skirtmgboards, and mirrors, or they may be •fixed under floors. A screen is a particularly effective heater on this system, because of its very big eurface. The electric elements are embodied in the screen, which, to allappearftECCS, is unaltered from the Temperatures of about 100 heit, i.e., which arc comfortably warm to tho liand, are fo»n4 * enough. With course, there is no risK 01 > , are the electric elem J^A 9 f ar or mirrors, especially m , looking-o' a ii i thev do not become . f fir heattog must always be more or for beating f or those who less «ffnfd iTSo 6ouroG of heat is so SnveS, and healthy. The S under this new system, however, comparatively moderate, iccause or its high efficiency. . A four-fold screen, for instance, consumes one unit of electricity m 1* to 1 v hours. The cost of electric current for heating seldom exceeds two pence a unit, while in many places it in only a penny. When it is considered that the screen in question will warn quite a. large room it will be understood that the cost ia by no means prohibitive. This .method of heating, should be ideal for the early summer or tha autumn, when very small amounts of heat are required. Tho screens, panels, mirrors, and mats with the heating elements can /be made up of auj material sad ia any. (iesired fcwa.