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Bay Area’s All Seasons Insulation Company recommends guarding against mold development during winter months. Pleasant Hill, CA (PRWEB) January 07, 2012 Bay Area's home insulation specialist, All Seasons Insulation Company recommends halting any potential for mold growth. During the winter, cold air from the outside and heated air on the inside creates the perfect condition for condensation to develop on walls, which in turn creates mold. “Guarding against mold is not only necessary...

More than half of all fire related deaths are a result of items catching fire from being too close to space heaters. The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes® provides families with life-saving information on how to safely use space heaters this winter season. Tallahassee, FL (PRWEB) January 04, 2012 It finally feels like winter and, as cold winter weather sets in across the country, many families are using portable space heaters to keep warm. Because more than half of all fire-related...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and West Virginia University have developed a new technology that can reduce air pollutant emissions from some chicken and swine barns, and also reduce their energy use by recovering and possibly generating heat. Specifically, the research team designed, built, and evaluated a proof-of-concept unit that incorporates a biofilter and a heat exchanger to reduce ammonia emissions from livestock barns, while also tempering – or heating up –...

HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Flame Seal Products, Inc. (Pink Sheets: FLMP) releases the following: Flame Seal Products, Inc., which took control of marketing FLAME SEAL-TB, its Thermal Barrier coating for the Spray Foam Insulation Industry in August of this year, has seen exponential sales growth as a result of that effort, as well as from its ongoing marketing program in the Fire Retardant Leather market. Sales figures that have been monitored on a monthly basis from...

Size matters… but apparently so does shape – when it comes to conducting heat in very small spaces. Researchers looking at the thermal conductivity of boron nanoribbons have found that they have unusual heat-transfer properties when compared to other wire/tube-like nanomaterials. While past experiments have shown that bundles of non-metallic nanostructures are less effective in conducting heat energy than single nanostructures, a new study shows that bundling boron nanoribbons can have...

Although the temperate climates of central Europe provide plentiful food in summer, finding enough to eat is much more problematic in winter. Many small mammals avoid the problem by hibernating but this survival strategy is generally not practiced by larger animals. With the exception of some bears, large mammals remain fully awake throughout the year, yet they too must reduce their metabolism to cope with the comparative scarcity of food. Red deer, for example, are known to lower their heart...

The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity – a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material – gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, lasers and a number of other powered devices. The finding was made by a group of engineers headed by Deyu Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology on Dec....

The Bergquist Company announces an expansion to their Thermal Substrates operation at their Prescott, WI manufacturing facility. Chanhassen, MN (PRWEB) December 12, 2011 The Bergquist Company is pleased to announce the expansion of its Prescott, Wisconsin Thermal Substrates operation. Groundbreaking for the 30,000 square foot expansion took place on October 15, 2010. Equipment has been purchased and installed for a second Thermal Clad® manufacturing line, which will produce the...

Microscopic water droplets jumping from one surface to another may hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers. Duke University engineers have developed a new way of producing thermal diodes to regulate heat by bleeding it away or keeping it in. The method solves several shortcomings of existing devices. While thermal diodes can be made from solid materials, these solid-state diodes are not nearly as...

A heat engine measuring only a few micrometers works as well as its larger counterpart, although it splutters What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its running. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have now observed this with a heat engine on the...