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“What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Its not so easy to say overlook this anymore. In an information rich business environment, names are powerful. Naming is important because it enables easy retrieval, as well as recognition by us [...]
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Learning about new software can be exciting and daunting all at once. I am talking about the new and improved version of Autodesk Revit MEP that came out in April last year and was updated massively in the fall. I am learning a lot from a variety of sources, among them, the Revit groups at [...]
I had a growing feeling the past few years that we were lagging the Europeans in building energy science. Now this is eloquently expressed here by Jerry Yudelson: Yudelson said European countries tend to lead the U.S. in sustainable building practices because Europeans “don’t like to waste resources. You go to a country like Sweden [...]
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We need it for our childrens future . We need alternatives to old-fashioned, expensive and dirty fossil energy.
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I like Obamas proposal to invest $150 billion dollars in tried and true renewables over 10 years. McCains emphasis is on electric cars, but this idea to try to encourage a better battery to come out of the lab in Michigan has its risks(of not happening. Some of the other proposals to manage energy policy [...]
I usually do not like to mix politics and engineering. However energy is the intersection of my interests and the public in interest. Hence todays post about politics. “the country has no explicit national energy policy and no consensus on direction, an issue that the next president and next Congress are unlikely to deal with [...]
I just finished reading a report by ASHRAE that in real dollar terms, Dept of Energy (DOE) research has been cut by 9% since 2004. This at a time when spending by other countries is increasing dramatically. Is this a trend? The Bush administration has consistently taken the same position that big OIL has always [...]
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I have been very busy designing a 2000 horsepower high pressure steam plant and an 8 megawatt emergency generator plant for the new Fort Belvoir Va hospital project. I have also been busy taking care of my wife and my horses. I am working on a short paper regarding the use of building information models [...]
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I found this statement in the November 2007 HPAC Engineering magazine and agree totally with it: Thomas Hartman, PE, principal of The Hartman Co. and longtime member of HPAC Engineering’s Editorial Advisory Board, …said,” I believe the level of technologies available to our industry have completely overrun the processes we use to design, construct, and [...]
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We, as a nation, still do not seem to agree on the facts. The debate on what to do about global warming continues! Latest news on the Energy bill from Washington. It is amazing how the fossil fuel defenders continue to talk up the case for finding more ways to use oil. And they pretend [...]
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