[Greenbuilding] Advice on heating in Tucson

[Rob Tom]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:40:38 -0400, John Straube  
<jfstraub at civmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>> Ostensibly, it might be some sort of pseudo-religious ritual that might  
>> involve a break-dancing/hip-hop/yoga/funky-chicken routine that is  
>> performed to rid the space of evil spirits but in reality, it would be  
>> a meeting space Green pre-heating strategy.

> I think what Rob is trying to say in his humorous way,


What ??!!

I was perfectly serious. (Okay, maybe not perfectly, but pretty serious.  
Okay, maybe not "pretty" but...)

We all know (right ?)that the human body, at rest, generates about the  
same amount of heat as a 100 watt bulb.

Performing some rigourous activity (like the suggested "Chasing Away the  
Evil Spirits" pre-meeting ritual) could almost quadruple that output so it  
wouldn't take many bodies very long to provide the equivalent pre-heating  
capacity of the "500 watt heater" that WatJohn mentioned or the array of  
infrared heat lamps that Corwyn suggested.

And human bodies do provide radiant heat. And portable at that.

As for the "not being hot to the touch so as to not burn little jam-faces"  
criteria, some of us may consider ourselves to be "hot stuff" but...

And a little pre-meeting exercise would help to sharpen the mind so should  
make the meetings more productive or at the very least, help to make the  
attendees more attentive.

True, the meeting hall might need some moderate upgrading in terms of  
insulation and air-sealing but that would be a Good Thing in the end, I  
would thimk.

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Rob Tom
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