Save Money On Energy Costs with Green Radiant barrier
Green Energy Barrier
Brief History
Radiant barrier was introduced to the United States in the 1920’s to insulate residential homes and commercial buildings. The product started being produced commercially around 1945, but the company producing the barrier was ruled a monopoly by the US government and shut down. Around 1955 Clark E. Beck of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, at the request of NASA, developed radiant barrier technology for the space program. In a quest to discover a way to protect the astronauts from temperatures ranging from -273 degrees to +238 degrees Celsius, he found that a thin sheet of aluminum foil
radiant barrier would do the same job as a seven-foot thick piece of conventional insulation. Needless to say the astronaut’s space suits
could not be seven-foot thick; therefore radiant barrier was implemented into the space suits. By placing the reflective barrier in the space suits it reflected the astronaut’s body temperature back at them, keeping them warm. It also reflected the deadly radiation from the sun helping to keep them cool. The radiant barrier kept more than 95 percent of the radiant heat from penetrating the space suits, also small holes were placed in the material to allow moisture to escape. The end result was that the material maintained constant and comfortable temperatures inside the space suits. There has been great resistance to radiant barriers by lobbyists for the insulation companies to stop them from residential use over the years. However as energy continues to rise they will make a dramatic difference in heating and cooling cost to homeowners across America and the world.
Dollar Wise: With radiant barriers, high expectations for lower bills
10:30 AM CDT on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates an aluminum foil-based barrier can reduce summer cooling Costs and winter heating costs –on average of 22 percent to 30 percent, though up to 37 percent is possible. The spray-on reflective paint, which the Energy Department doesn’t classify as “radiant barrier,” is less effective, the agency said.
Tests on Green Energy Radiant heat Barrier
David Beal, a research analyst at the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida, said a typical savings with a radiant barrier might be 15 percent of the electric bill. And Dennis O’Neal of the Texas A&M Energy Systems Laboratory puts savings in the same range – 23 percent to 38 percent, But at least one homeowner with strong number-crunching credentials – he’s been an energy analyst for 25 years – said his savings with a three-tiered approach, including a thermal barrier, have been so good that he could pay off his $10,000 investment in about three years. When you consider that the roof surface on a 2,000-square-foot house can be 3,000 square feet or more, depending on pitch, the cost of hiring someone to install a radiant barrier can be steep – up to $4 a square foot.
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