Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter, the sun heats the greenhouse air which then flows up a vent at the top of the greenhouse, through the attic, and down a space in the northern wall. A blanket of heat envelopes the whole house...
Under the south-facing windows pigmented concrete floor absorbs heat during the day and radiates at night. "We call that poor man's Italian tile. The concrete costs 50 cents a square foot, tile would do the same job but costs ten times as much," Doug said...
...coldest the house gets is 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Doug spends 50 dollars a year to heat his home on a half-cord of wood that is burned on the coldest winter days. Two-thirds of the heating is done by the sun, ten percent from the two pot-bellied stoves. The rest comes from "heat of occupancy": the oven, the refrigerator, light-bulbs, and people. Doug looked at the 15 of us in his living room. "Right now, all of you are giving me 100 watts," he said...
...solar professional; he installs solar heating systems in houses. Jim spoke to us in the technical language of solar contracting. He spoke of structural attachment points, insulated thermal blinds, weather surfaces, triple glazed window systems, release temperature, mean-radiant temperature, stick-framing, R-factors, maintenance-free super-insulated maximum-efficiency collectors, and unstratified heat...
...going to take a lot of concentration for us to win," Harvard Coach Dave Fish said. "Because of our exam schedule, other schools get there long before us, and they have a real chance to get used to the heat...