Sentences with word «superinsulated»

In 1979, he put out a press release praising the characteristics and benefits of superinsulated houses.

By 1985, we'd figured out how to build superinsulated, airtight houses in North America.

Possible space applications for such superinsulating materials include supersensitive detectors for measuring electromagnetic radiation and other phenomena, and switches for electronic devices, such as energy - saving diodes.

And superinsulated won with lousy windows compared to what we have today.

These ingredients include superinsulating aerogels for spacesuits, flexible concrete cloth for construction projects and complex natural polymers that could replace toxic plastics.

Superinsulated passive?

As Joe Biden toured a production line, earnestly absorbing the esoterica of superinsulating windows, Surace corralled one of the Vice President's aides.

So to protect us, the U.S. Antarctic Program loans visitors a heavy red parka, snow pants, huge superinsulated boots and neck warmers.

In the late 1970s, I built a passive solar superinsulated home.

Green Building Store continues to fine tune passive house design and construction techniques with exacting attention to detail, as demonstrated by its latest superinsulated, stone - clad cavity wall house in West Yorkshire.

Likewise, it is virtually impossible to meet the Passivhaus energy requirement without superinsulated roofs, walls and foundations.

And from 1997 to 2002 he conducted a research project called CEPHEUS (Cost - Efficient Passive Houses as European Standards), which collected data on 221 superinsulated housing units at 14 locations in five countries.

Superinsulated won.

But so unexpected was the discovery of the superinsulating state that Vinokur's team was initially unaware of the prediction.

One future avenue of research for Vinokur and his colleagues will be to raise the temperature at which their niobium titanium nitrite compound transitions into the superinsulating state.

«The experiments carried out by our team conclusively establish the existence of the superinsulating state and the validity of its foundational concepts, including the fundamental concept of charge - vortex duality,» said Vinokur, who also is a Senior Fellow in the University of Chicago's Computation Institute.

However, until now, scientists had never conclusively observed the mirror - like reflection of the vortex BKT transition — the charge BKT transition — on the superinsulating side of the superconductor - insulator transition.

Superinsulating and superconducting materials, which are exact opposites, realize duality between electric and magnetic effects.

Theoretical physicists at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory), the University of Geneva and the University of Perugia — Cristina Diamantini, Carlo Trugenberger and Pascuale Sodano — had predicted the existence of this superinsulating state, dual to superconductivity, in 1996.

The latest finding builds on work published in 2008 by Vinokur and his associates that experimentally established the existence of the superinsulating state, while also proposing that it «mirrors» the behavior that occurs in the superconducting state, deriving it from the most fundamental quantum concept, the uncertainty principle.

The superinsulating capacity of titanium nitride occurs only at supercold temperatures, within one - tenth of one degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion ceases.

Just as a superconducting material allows a current to pass through it without any resistance, a superinsulating material can hold a charge infinitely long without leakage.

In April an international team of scientists introduced a new fundamental state of matter: superinsulating.

The leaves do not generate heat and are not made of some superinsulating material, Helliker stresses.

Are you ready to dump that Victorian home and / or cheap stick McMansion, and build a superinsulated Earth home?

When a barrel of oil went from $ 32 to $ 11 and the Reagan administration cut funding for energy efficiency programs, the superinsulated, airtight house trend went into hibernation.

The two - story office building, designed by ZGF Architects, is superinsulated and relies largely on passive solar strategies for heating in the winter, when outside temperatures can drop into the single digits.

As Lloyd points out, the «Superinsulated» house was really the origin and (along with airtightness) is the foundation of Passive House.

But the Build SMART panelized system sure does help you get a nice, superinsulated, airtight building that can meet the rigorous standards for Passive House certification.

When you want to build a superinsulated house, you have several choices on how you increase the R - value.

If you want to build a superinsulated, airtight house, you run into some difficulties.

William Shurcliff was a Harvard physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, helped stop supersonic passenger planes in the 1960s, and took a big interest in passive solar and superinsulated building in the 1970s and»80s.

Whether your house is uninsulated or superinsulated, heat flows from warmer to cooler (second law of thermodynamics).

Once you've designed and built a home with passive solar features, and the house is close to airtight and superinsulated, what fuels do you suggest?

It achieves significant energy savings by creating a superinsulated building envelope that minimizes heat loss and prevents air leakage.

For great photographs and accessible information, I would recommend Julie Torres Moskovitz's The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design.

The best home fell well short of the Passivhaus standard, of course; it measured 2.24 ac / h @ 50 Pa — about the same as the superinsulated house that Riversong built.

We were here in the late 1970s when «mass and glass» took on «superinsulated.»