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Sorry for being pedantic, buuut.....
This is the opposite of centralised heating, this is localised heating. Centralised heating would be the fire in the basement and a fan blowing the hot air into every room....you know....like centralised heating....
"Centralized" means all the heat is coming from a single location...
Distributing the heat is often assumed because we tend to heat entire houses.
In areas where they use bed furnances, it's almost always a single bed for the whole family and that is the only furnace in operation over the night. I'm going off memory but I believe in the day time most of the beds store and transform into a living room.
Again, with the same bed furnace being the only one in the structure.
Meeting the pedantic definition of "centralized heating".
Centralized heating means heating multiple rooms or locations from a central heating source. Distributing the heat is the entire reason for the 'centralized' part of the term.
Like a fireplace that is open two rooms on opposite sides of a wall could be a stretch of the definition.
You're talking about a HVAC system...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/central-heating
Top of your own link mate.
It requires mechanical means to move the heat.
“HVAC units” is an integral system that can have an ac unit installed on it.
A boiler can be central heat, but it’s not an hvac unit, but it does fall under the broader “Heating/Venting/air condition” that makes up the term.
HVAC is one type of central heating system. I mean, your link has 'centeal heating' in the name.
So is a centralized system that uses steam to heat disconnected buildings.
Go find a definition of central heating that doesn't include heating more than one location or rooms.
Why'd you link this to defend your point
He doesn't read articles, surely you'd realise that by now.
Why did you not notice a way to move that heat isn't included in that definition?
It's ok to be wrong man, it's really not that big a deal. You can only try to move goal posts so many times before it starts looking silly
If you think goalposts were moved, you didn't understand any of this and explaining more won't help.
Feel free to keep replying to my comments, but I'll never see anymore of your questions