The House That Heats Itself
Everyone talks about air temperature. No one talks about wall temperature. And that is exactly why your house never feels truly warm. You can set your radiator to 24 degrees, but if your walls are at 16 degrees, you will still feel cold. Your body does not feel only air. It feels radiation. If you sit in a tent in the desert at night, the air can be 20 degrees but you are freezing because the cold sky is stealing heat from your body. If you sit in a cold room with warm walls, you feel warm even if the …