Quotes about insulation (14 Quotes)





    What people in those flooded areas are doing is taking out all the carpeting and flooring in the houses and stripping off all the drywall and insulation to the four foot mark and cleaning everything that's left with a 10 percent solution of bleach to try to keep out the black mold and try to save their homes.

    The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.


    Conversely, if extra insulation keeps moisture in the home from escaping, the home can develop mold, which can cause a number of ailments and even pose a significant health risk.


    It's just been blown apart. You've got buildings with all their windows blown out. You've got curtains blowing in the wind. You've got insulation from ceilings all over the streets.

    A problem with the former method of testing is that it caused a treeing effect, which is a void in insulation. Charges that build up within these voids using the DC input method of testing would want to dissipate to ground, thus causing a breakdown in the cable's insulation, which would ultimately cause a failure.

    Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

    Many construction materials are likely to be pricier and scarcer because the storms knocked out so much supply, even if demand does not pick up, ... The loss of substantial oil and natural gas production will affect supplies and prices for diesel fuel, asphalt, roofing materials, insulation, PVC pipe, coatings and assorted construction plastics.

    What North Korea really needs is a shipload of weather stripping insulation material to fix the holes in the windows in winter in the buildings where people are trying to survive. A reactor is about the last thing you would turn to from an energy perspective.


    There are a lot of measures they can implement whether it is insulation, new windows, heating and cooling systems there are a lot of things people can do and people need to take advantage of this program they are investing into it, they should take advantage of it.



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