Word: warmth
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...every 2,000 souls, a rate higher than anywhere else in the U.S.?submitted ideas to a Department of Energy small grants program. Elizabeth Hart of Galena won $13,800 to build a solar greenhouse that will use the body heat of chickens as a source of warmth. R. Charles Vowell of Unalaska got $12,000 for a 10,000-gal. bio-gas generator that uses crab wastes from canneries to produce a burnable methane. Craig Anderson of Kenny Lake received $400 to build a passive solar system that features collectors made of used beer and soft drink bottles...
Even if the landlord abides by the law, 55° or 68° is not exactly the smothering warmth Americans, unlike Europeans, have come to expect. In apartment buildings with fireplaces, urbanites are joining the national craze for wood power. When Chicago's park district had some trees chopped down in Lincoln Park last month, the loggers outran the joggers to haul away the wood before the city could remove...
Vent dampers. Before a furnace or boiler can heat a house, it first must heat itself. Only after the inside temperature climbs to about 130° F does the furnace begin transferring warmth. Yet whenever the system shuts off, much of the accumulated heat within the furnace escapes up the flue. The vent damper is an electrically operated plate that blocks the flue during an oil-or gas-burning furnace's off cycle, thus retaining the heat. The plate then rotates to an open position when the unit trips on again. Department of Energy studies show that dampers...
Ceiling fans. There is little point to heating a house if most of the warmth wafts overhead: in a well-insulated room the air near the ceiling can be anywhere from 10° to 25° warmer than at ankle level. Ceiling fans can reduce heating costs sharply, from 25% to 35%, simply by swishing the over-head reservoir of warm air down to where the people are. Designs range from units with plain wooden blades to brass and even iron-scrollwork extravaganzas that recall the decor of turn-of-the-century ice cream parlors. Top-of-the-line ceiling...
...fortunate enough to remember the television series will understand that the Enterprise is huge, containing an endless number of corridors, transporter rooms, conference rooms, dining rooms and recreation areas, Additionally, the decision to make the interior set and costumes completely metallic and devoid of color eliminated any sense of warmth on board the ship...