Right on! I wàs watching a this old house on the topic and if i remember correctly its been awhile but it was boiler heat with a boiler that does both hot water and heat but they laid a membrane on the floor with grooves in it in the shape of what's in your pic and they used pex then concrete i think it was a 3" floor i can't really remember how thick or if it was concrete or tile I think either one is Cool I might do the solar panels and a windmill together but depends on the zoning on where i move to i want to be off the grid so to speak self reliant so electric elements for heat might not be to bad of an idea either, scew the utility company's all they do is raise my bill when they want, rape our land with the fracking and gas fields,mining coal and stuff and the pollution from the byproducts of the mining and the burning and the water they use and that's not mentioning the dams That screw up the natural habitat of the eco system upstream of the dams
Consumers energy has a discharge tube out in lake Michigan for their coal burning power plant the water is WARM out there , the lake will bubble a bit when they open it, ive been out there steelhead and salmon fishing,the bait fish and perch like it there But like the rivers,the Muskegon river and Manistee river all damed up ! So im a ways out on doing anything because we have alot to think about so any and All Ideas are welcome