The days of sitting around a warm heating stove and sharing experiences, tales, and dreams are for the most part gone.
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In icy Tomsk, the potential for heat loss is even worse: astonishingly, the pipes that carry warm water around the district heating network of Seversk and Tomsk are completely uninsulated.
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The report by Santia Asbestos Management Limited said asbestos in the roof void may have been blown around the building by the heating system.
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Sky Greens venture is supported by the Singaporean government and has another advantage over other urban farms around the world: abundant natural heating and light.
It was like the stray dogs Lera had suddenly noticed all over the city, trotting around the market, lying curled up beside the heating vents in the metro underpasses.
All that mining and trucking rock around was expensive, even though the basic idea, heating the rock, has always been very simple, so simple that you can even do it at home, as NPR's technology reporter Nell Boyce explains.
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Their simulations included the effects of eclipses and tidal heating on climate for an earth-twin in orbit around a Jupiter-like gaseous giant planet.
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Sweden creates energy for around 250, 000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system, Swedish Waste Managements says.
Strange and unexpected costs will sneak up on you broken heating systems, leaking roofs and they love to arrive around holidays and vacations, when money is already tight.
This means sealing air leaks around windows and doors, properly insulating attics, replacing standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps and giving your heating and cooling systems an annual checkup to ensure they're running properly.
In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.
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