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re: ughh the heat! my ovaries are sweating!
9 jun 1999
wrote:
>...it has been so hot in the delaware valley this week that
>organs i don`t even have are perspiring.
you must be on the warm side of the valley. my house is still comfy at 76 f,
as i sit entombed amongst 200,000 pounds of rocks with r10 outsulation, with
120,000 pounds of water in the basement, and the 'ol solar attic drawing
warm air in past the sweaty sealed containers.
>rangax the wonder dog is pretty steamed too, he wants to run but the
>heat just saps him dead everytime he steps outside.
fan fans: consider that fan motors add heat, if blowing air into the house,
eg 341 btu/h for a 100 w fan, not unlike rangax the wonder dog...
off to portland, maine soon, to hear timothy joseph ellison, builder,
describe his wondrous "pyramid house: a ten-day thermal-time constant
passive solar home" at the 1999 ases annual conference...
nick
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