My room is heated with gas. The most common is natural gas, as well as liquid gases. Urban gas or biogas are less common. The whole house has a kind of central heating or boiler. There is a heater in my room. I can choose the heat myself. In summer the heating level is always at 0 and in winter between 3 to 5. In order to prevent an explosion when the flame goes out due to the escape of unburned gas, gas heaters are equipped with a fuse (Zündsicherung). More...
-my Energy source is heating oil
-The function of oil heating systems is in principle quite simple. The oil is pumped into the oil tank and heated. With the help of fine nozzles it is then atomised and sprayed into the combustion chamber where it is ignited by electric sparks. The resulting heat is then directed to the water in the boiler, which is then transported to the radiator. The resulting exhaust gases are released via the chimney.
Which energy do we use?
We use oil heating in our house. It is a non-renewable energy.
How do they work?
Oil heaters produce heat by burning fuel oil. It is one of the most harmful ways to heat. Petroleum is a carbonaceous fuel, the burning of which accelerates climate change. Oil heaters used to be the most popularchoice when building new houses. Today they are no longer installed.
We live in a house, where we have a heat pump (Wärmepumpe) and an earth probe (Erdsonde).
The probe goes deep into the earth and takes the heat from the earth. Thanks to a very clever system, we can use that heat to make hot water and to heat our house. Because the heat from the earth is renewable, the system is very ecological. Before the pump and the probe we had to heat with oil, which is not good for our environment. The change to the new system is a very important step for our family and our ecological footprint. More and more families and houses change or already have changed to this ecological system.
In the picture below you can see our boiler at home.
At home we have a oil heating. Sadly it is nonrenewable, but we are thinking of getting a more environment friendly one in the future.
Here is some Basic knowledge about the oil heatig:
In the first step, the heating oil is pumped into the oil tank. From there it reaches the boiler via oil pipes. Its function in oil heating is to heat the oil first. Then a solenoid valve opens and the oil is atomized with the injection nozzle and sprayed into the combustion chamber. Sparks ignite the heated oil there. In the modern mode of operation of an oil heater, the oil is evaporated before it is burned. This leads to clean combustion, since the oil burns like a gas and soot formation can be minimized in this way.
Source: Basic Knowledge oil heating
We have heaters at home, the heaters are gas heaters. I live in an apartment where there are some others apartment, we have a boiler room where all the heaters come together. This type of heat can be good if you use biogas. However, I am not sure what we use.
THis is how it works: The burner burns the gas, the combustion produces heat that is needed to heat the water. A circulation principle allows them to circulate in the heaters.
As we know, solar panels doesnt emmitt any CO2. If put correctly on the roof, it can make full use of the sun shining on it. We have some own solar panels on our roof.
While the specifics behind solar power are perhaps a bit on the technical side for some homeowners, the basic principles are straightforward and easy to understand. Standard solar panels - or photovoltaics (PV) as they are technically called - generate an electric current by catching light particles from the sun. This current is transferred to wires that lead to an inverter. The inverter converts this energy into AC power for your home and can be used throughout the home in a variety of ways. As we produce more current than we need, we sell the part we doesnt need.
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We live on a farm and that's why we have such an old heating system with wood.
As you can see on the picture, we heat with wood sticks.
We burn the wood sticks and this creates heat / energy. The heat is then distributed through the pipes to the various radiators in the whole house.
With a wood heater system you can use the raw material (wood) and the wood is usually also available regionally.
So my house is being heated by wood chips. This may sound strange at first, but its efficiency is really interesting.
What is the point of heating with wood chips?
We heat our house with resources from the region and the value creation process is being held in Switzerland. Wood is a price worthy resource and very stable with its price. The new modern heating systems cause a bit of particulate matter which stays way below the given limit. The electricity needed is below 1 % of the energy output. You will be heating CO2-neutral with this system.
Most systems are fully automatic and the cleaning is not very time-consuming. One big negative is the logistic behind it. You will need a storage room and a direct driveway towards it.
How does it work?
Our property is part of a commonhold ownership (Stockwerkeigentümergemeinschaft). Therefore the heating is organized for the whole community. The wood chips heating is not on commonhold ground (gemeinschaftlicher Grund) but the heat comes from a local entrepreneur. He has a giant construction that burns wood chips and leads the energy to households through the whole community. When we changed the heating system a few years ago, we had to connect to his separate pipe system. Unfortunately, I cannot show you the heating system with a picture because it is locked away.