Mr Green also said that prospective buildings should be well insulated to reduce the "heat load", the amount of heat the system needed to deliver in order to warm the property.
Buildings will need to be better insulated as part of a drive to reduce energy consumption.
Areas that are predominantly coal or nuclear will be insulated from this to some extent because the grid can only handle so much demand with certain facilities shut down or retired.
Priorities and clinical strategies should be set by medical experts based on scientific evidence and cost analysis, and those decisions need to be insulated from the kinds of financial incentives and disincentives that special interest groups exert.
Its outsourcing services have proved to be insulated against downturns.
In addition, Western taxpayers should be insulated from this reform effort to the maximum extent possible, beginning with the multilateral termination of Western government guaranteed and direct credits.
Sheets of glass separated by a vacuum could bring windows' insulating properties up to par with insulated walls, yet allow them to be nearly as thin as single panes of glass.
Unless you make a concerted effort, it can be easy to be perceived as insulated or distant.
In the following days the team began sourcing thousands of "bori bags", essentially very strong, large plastic sacks which can be filled with earth to make insulated, cheap, stable shelters.
But banks in the city are thought to be well capitalised and fairly insulated from the global credit crunch.
Tata's may be the most balanced, which seems to have insulated it from the worst of the sector's woes.
The Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said the welfare budget could not be "insulated" from spending cuts that were needed to rebalance the public finances.
Indeed, many hope that the turmoil will somehow pass them by: that they can occupy a safe haven which, in part thanks to the euro itself, will be insulated from the world's economic storms.
Sociologists could have a field day with this question, but the explanation could be something as simple as the fact that people who live in cities are relatively insulated from how difficult and challenging it can be to produce the food, energy, equipment, devices, etc.
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Now, these institutionalized bias concerns appear to be spreading to other parts of the Times, which should otherwise be insulated from an ideological framing focus.
Of course, unused basement, attic, porch or garage space can be insulated, wired, dry-walled, floored and air-conditioned to add living space without expanding your home's footprint.
Nicola Stanbridge met one energy efficient renovation expert Russell Smith in South London who has completely insulated his own home and explained why he thinks many homeowners should be compelled to do the same.
Even my beloved Emerging Market Consumer ETF (NYSE: ECON) , which should be fairly insulated from the macro issues emanating from Europe, is down 7 percent year to date.
Circuit boards are double-insulated to protect against power surges, and there are backup power supplies that can be switched out on the fly.
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