As I entered the building where I work today:
I blame Al Gore. Or something.
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Last night, instead of writing some blog entries for you to read today, I went to the movies and saw An Inconvenient Truth.
An Inconvenient Truth is the companion film to the book with the same name by former-Vice President Al Gore. This film chronicles Gore's life as he discusses some of the…
...but I saw Al Gore speak last night, and he's not going to run for president. He did, however, have a lot of interesting things to say.
-role of television
-need to incorporate internet differently into schools
-overemphasis on liberal arts education (tension)
-slammed Bush and global warming…
Several climate scientists have now examined the alleged errors in An Inconvenient Truth. At RealClimate Gavin Schmidt (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and Michael Mann (director Penn State Earth System Science Center) write:
First of all, "An Inconvenient Truth" was a movie and people…
When Al Gore started to run for the presidency in 2000, he was thin. By the time the race was over, he had gained a lot of weight (like Clinton in 1992), and then he kept on gaining weight in the months after the election. (Who could blame him?) He also grew a beard.
However, by December of 2002,…
It could be worse. People I know from Austin complain that when they leave the office to go home this time of year, as soon as they step outside their glasses fog up.
Is the other side of the door frame covered in condensation too? Condensation is always a sign of energy loss.
Our building - one of the newest on campus - has double pane windows that seem to be pretty good insulators. But the window frames are just hollow aluminum, no insulating foam. Up to an inch of ice forms on the inside during the winter, and condensation forms on the outside during the summer. Considerable water-damage on both sides in addition to (I can't even imagine how much) energy loss.
Are architects all stupid? Or the people who write state RFP's?
thanks useful entry