[Greenbuilding] Steam Shower?
nick pine
nick at early.com
Wed Jan 12 16:27:45 CST 2011
A fully-enclosed shower like this:
http://www.sunfrost.com/efficient_shower.html
with a 5'x8' R2 20 Btu/h-F front door and 82 ft^2 of R10 8.2 Btu/h-F
enclosure
could be 120 F with (120-70)28.2 = 1410 Btu/h, ie 413 watts of steam from
a $50 Ranco ETC 111000 digital thermostat and a 1500 watt coffee urn with
the thermostat bypassed and a 1/4" polypropylene tube from the urn to the
tub
and another tube from a toilet tank to keep the urn full, to make a steam
shower
with the tub empty or a hot soaking tub with the tub full.
Nick
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