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This paves the way for new insulating materials which allow the transistor to switch faster, but are not tolerant of high temperatures.
These kits would include easy-to-install items, like a wrap, an insulating wrap for your water heater, caulking for doors and windows.
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In principle, futures contracts should also allow farmers to lock in a price for their crops, insulating them from the vagaries of the spot market.
In May, Dow Chemical said it would tap a strain of Solazyme algal oil for use in electrical transformer insulating fluids.
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That goes for towers in Glasgow, now swathed in multicoloured insulating overcladding.
But insulating existing housing stock is top priority for energy experts.
Not only does the Maastricht treaty prohibit it from taking orders from politicians, but members of the executive board are appointed for eight-year, non-renewable terms, insulating them from pressures to please politicians in order to get reappointed.
"As global warming starts to take hold, the need for air conditioning will become that much greater and the problems of insulating buildings will become even more accentuated, " he says.
This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).
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The Commission, set up by the Treasury, recognises there would be great technical difficulties for big banks, such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, in insulating their retail activities, that concentrate on providing services to households and smaller businesses, from investment banking.
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