Keep Cozy with radiant heat

Cozy Products use radiant energy to warm you rather than the entire room. No heat is wasted at the ceiling, seeping out of cracks or in areas that do not need to be heated. Our heaters minimize the heat loss from the body without overheating the air or ever becoming to hot to the touch.

Radiant heating is the delivery of heat from a hot surface directly to people. Think of the sun on a hot day – when the rays hit the earth, objects are the first to absorb the heat. The heat emanating from those surfaces then warms the air. Notice how concrete and the air directly above it is very hot? That is the definition of radiant heat.

This is one reason why radiant heating is more efficient than baseboard heating – since it covers a larger area, it allows for a lower room temperature. With no moving air in vents, it is better for allergies and asthma. There is also no air or energy lost through the ducts. The body absorbs the heat so none of it is wasted in the air, which lessens energy costs and carbon emissions.

Appliance	Watts	Energy Cost	Carbon Emissions
Small space heater	3,000	$2,952	80,415.6 lbs
Large space heater	11,000	$10,825	294,910 lbs
Toasty Toes®	90	$87.60	2,412.9 lbs
Cozy Legs®	100	$131.40	2,681 lbs

 

Even the smallest space heaters pose a serious threat to the environment and are pretty steep financially. Dumping a small space heater and replacing it with a one of our products will save you literally thousands of dollars. None of our indoor warmers use over 100 watts making them a better choice than any convection heating device. 

A lot of wasted hot air

The main reason why convection heating systems are not the best way to go is the simple fact that heat rises. Notice how it is always cooler in the basement than it is upstairs? That is a perfect example. The following graphic, courtesy of Total Insulations, shows what happens to heat.

Though convection systems (typical heating that blows air through vents) do provide heat, most of it floats to the top or gets lost in cracks of from windows and doors.

So why is it that hot air always rises above cold air? Simply stated, cold air is heavier.

When something is hot, it has a lot of stored energy. Molecules and atoms move quicker as the temperature rises; the faster they move, the more space they take up making their density less than a cooler object. Becaue hot air takes up more space than cold air (the cooler the air, the more density it has), lighter and less dense hot air will rise above the heavier and denser cold air.

The hot air vs. cold air concept is the problem with convection heating. General space heaters fall into this category. They do exactly what their name suggests: heat a space. When a space heater is on, it blows the warm air through a vent into an open space. The goal of the space heater is to warm the air in hopes that the objects (including people) will catch the heat also. Since heat rises, many people end up uncomfortable in the convection-heated environment, rendering the space heater practically useless. Convection heat is essentially a lot of wasted hot air.

Space heaters? No thanks…

Just in case you were unsure, space heaters are really dangerous. According to the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA), in 2005 space heaters:

·         Caused 62,200 U.S. home structure fires

·         Involved 670 deaths

·         Involved 1550 injuries

·         Cost $909 million in property damages

·         Caused 22 percent of home fire deaths

 

The threat of fire is not the only issue – improper venting equipment can cause carbon monoxide poisoning. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

·         From 1999-2004, an average of 439 people died annually from carbon monoxide poisoning

·         From 2004-2006, an estimated 20,636 people went to the emergency room for nonfatal, unintentional, non-fire related carbon monoxide exposures per year

o   71 percent of those resulted from home exposure

o   41 percent occurred during winter months

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