Tag: heat
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How Does a Heat Pump Get Heat From Cold Air?
Prime: prime Subtitle: The physics of heat pumps isn’t really that difficult to understand Images: Cold weather is coming back to Atlanta this week, so let’s talk about heat. An increasingly popular way to heat buildings these days is with heat pumps, even in cold climates. But how do they work? read more
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How Does a Heat Pump Get Heat From Cold Air?
Prime: prime Subtitle: The physics of heat pumps isn’t really that difficult to understand Images: Cold weather is coming back to Atlanta this week, so let’s talk about heat. An increasingly popular way to heat buildings these days is with heat pumps, even in cold climates. But how do they work? read more
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The BTU-tiful History of the BTU
Prime: prime Subtitle: The British Thermal Unit gives us a handle on an abstract concept Images: Every year on New Year’s Eve, I head over to some friends’ house here in the Atlanta area. They have the best party around — Possum Drop — and I’ve been going for nearly a decade now. As midnight…
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How to Become a Building Enclosure Control Freak
Prime: prime Subtitle: The fundamentals of controlling heat, air, and moisture Images: …
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The Principles, Uses, and Limitations of WUFI
Subtitle: Hygrothermal analysis examined at Building Science Corporation’s Expert Session Images: < p title=”his Passive HouseA residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted…