[Greenbuilding] Advice on heating in Tucson

[Kirsten A Flynn]

OK, I had started sending these to a separate folder, because it was  
taking me so long to get through them in my in box.  This had, (like  
every rule, pay attention legistators) unintended consequences.  I  
found I was hardly reading the list at all, and deleting many unread.

I am back in the habit now, and cannot believe I have stayed away so  
long.  I am now perfoming the back to the list ritual dance, (my  
office is a little cold.)

Kirsten A Flynn
Sustainable Home
www.sustainablehome.com
650-855-9476

On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Rob Tom wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> < A r c h i L o g i c  at chaffY a h o o  dot  c a >
> manually winnow the chaff from my edress in your reply
>
>
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