Sidewalks
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You probably don't need to heat a sidewalk up to room temperature to keep the snow and ice off it, so maybe it's not as big a power drain as it sounds like.
There's a gated community out in Vail, Co that supposedly has a heated access road up the mountain for people to get to their mansions. I don't know how much power a heated sidewalk would use, but a road might really run up a power bill.
Those ads don't say a heated sidewalk exists, just that so and so voted for them. So they may be accurate, but like most political ads they're a half-truth. Another reason I can't wait for the elections to be over. TV lately has been almost unwatchable.
There's a gated community out in Vail, Co that supposedly has a heated access road up the mountain for people to get to their mansions. I don't know how much power a heated sidewalk would use, but a road might really run up a power bill.
Those ads don't say a heated sidewalk exists, just that so and so voted for them. So they may be accurate, but like most political ads they're a half-truth. Another reason I can't wait for the elections to be over. TV lately has been almost unwatchable.
I know someone who installed a heated driveway and it was cost prohibitive to use afterwards ...... and it was cost prohibitive by a LOT.
Anyone who wants to walk on a heated sidewalk need look no further than the Mid-American Building in Sioux City. The whole south sidewalk is heated.
I think we should just heat the whole road.. No more snow plows and there would never ever be a car accident again!
Does anyone know if they have these at the entrance of Gerdin? The snow never accumulates on the stone that makes up the side walk toward the entrance. Is that a heated sidewalk, or is that just the heat transferring from the stone inside?
Or perhaps more importantly, why does our nose run and our feet smell? These are the questions that run through my head at work.
I'm just a journalism graduate, so this line of thinking is well beyond my means, but wouldn't you just have to heat it warmer than the temp of freezing to have it work? Maybe a little more to account for other various factors, but if freezing is 32 degrees (or something along there) if you heated it to about 45-50 degrees, wouldn't you think that would be warm enough?
We have someone with a heated driveway and it seems to work well. It has a snow sensor of some sort so that it only comes on when there is freezing precipitation going on. It then shoots recirculating hot water out into the bowls of the driveway. Seems to be fairly energy efficient to me.
The town where these were going into was part of a study on Green Cities. They expressed interest in this because the town is located next to two very popular trout fishing streams in Iowa and they saw a lot of tourism form them. They wanted to look at a way to reduce salt runoff during the spring melt which could produce massive fish kill in the streams.
The sidewalks would have been heated by geothermal energy, so the energy use, in conventional means, would have been non existent. The city would also save money on snow removal with the costs that are associated with it.
Sounds like a great idea in theory.
The sidewalks would have been heated by geothermal energy, so the energy use, in conventional means, would have been non existent. The city would also save money on snow removal with the costs that are associated with it.
Sounds like a great idea in theory.
I love the part where it does nothing to create jobs, on account of all the work was done by robots apparently.
In places where they use steam tunnels to circulate heat on a campus the ancilary benefit is patches of sidewalk that are in close proximity are generally clear. If you are utilizing such a system anyway I would think it would be great to design th connections with the pedestrian connections in mind. Once the object becomes solely to heat sidewalks I have my doubts.
Also, heated car seats are crazy? You either have not had them or your *** is too big to get cold. :spinny:
Also, heated car seats are crazy? You either have not had them or your *** is too big to get cold. :spinny:
