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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"home heating"”.
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Evaluation of Impacts Resulting from Home Heating Oil Tank Discharges
… to heat nearly 400,000 dwellings in Virginia. Home heating oil released from leaking underground tanks located adjacent to homes and residing in unsaturated soil adjacent to houses poses a potentially serious health risk. Specifically, the migration of hazardous vapors into buildings, known as …
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Factors Affecting the Adoption of Home Heating Energy Conservation Measures: A Behavioral Approach
… aim of this research is to better understand homeowners' adoption of home heating energy conservation measures by analysing a number of factors that are thought to be underlying determinants of adoption behavior. The basic approach is behavioral drawing on the knowledge built up in behavioral …
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A case for electrifying heat in end-use residential sector towards carbon-free buildings
Space and water heating account for nearly two-thirds of energy consumption in U.S. homes, and a large contributor to energy costs of end-use residential dwellings. Most home heating systems in the United States are fueled by fossil fuels - natural gas and fuel oil (heating oil) - representing more …
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Passive solar in the city : an energy conscious design for subsidized multi-family housing development
… has been overlooked as a viable alternative for home heating in urban subsidized housing. Rather ironically, in housing whose residents could most benefit from the use of solar energy, such concepts and technologies are not utilized. This thesis demonstrates how passive solar heating and energy …
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Embodied energetics : a digital design-production system for passive solar walls in Vinalhaven Island, Maine
… all houses in Vinalhaven Island, Maine have high home-heating energy burden due to their thermally weak thin walls. Substituting thin walls with typical passive solar walls is a known solution, however such walls would be inundated with (i) high embodied energy in non-recoverable materials, (ii) …
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Rural poverty & social isolation: measuring the impact of a national initiative in Northern Ireland using binary logistic regression
Rural Northern Ireland (NI) is home to an increasingly ageing and vulnerable population. Chiefly, the sternest challenges facing the most vulnerable include proximity to services (health, educational and recreational centers), transport and fuel poverty. NI’s response is not limited to EU funded …
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The West Virginia Friends of Firewood Network: Engaging with and exploring the practices of firewood producers
… is the oldest source of energy for cooking and home heating and remains a primary heating source for half of the world's population, yet the industry remains relatively undocumented and immature both in developing and technologically advanced countries. Firewood is an environmentally friendly …
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Monitoring Reduction Efforts for PM2.5 in Ellensburg,WA Using Community-Based Social Marketing to Examine Behavioral Change
… burning and local air quality. Throughout the home-heating season mobile sampling for PM<sub>2.5 </sub>and black carbon was conducted (i) to evaluate relative changes in PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations throughout the city from the 2015 mobile sampling study and the data collected in 2017, and …
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Energy efficiency's role in a zero energy building: simulating energy efficient upgrades in a residential test home to reduce energy consumption
… energy efficient upgrades in a residential home through various building energy simulation techniques including the computer building load and energy requirement software entitled “Transient Analysis of Building Loads and Energy Requirements” or TABLER. Energy savings from energy efficient …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… municipal waste and exhaust from automobiles and home heating. The first chapter explores the importance of life-cycle environmental considerations in an oligopoly model of international trade with three countries (two exporters and one importer) and one traded good. It considers the implications …
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Quantitative Assessment of Energy and Emissions Impacts of Teleworking on the Four Domains of Homes, Offices, Transportation, and the Internet
… Telework primarily impacts four domains of homes, offices, transportation, and the internet in terms of energy use and emissions. Previous studies mostly focused on a single domain but savings from one domain can be offset by another domain, resulting in different and even contradictory …
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Modeling, fabrication and optimization of optically transparent - thermally insulating silica aerogels for solar thermal applications
… collectors have high potential for domestic heating when deployed at the rooftop scale, reducing fossil fuel consumption used for home heating needs. The efficiency of these solar applications is highly dependent on the ability of the collecting device to absorb the incoming solar energy, and …
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Context Awareness in the Internet of Things and its Applications
… reaching a specific destination, or in driving home heating, to understand the potentialities of merging context awareness to the Internet of Things in a convergent and ubiquitous platform. The enormous amount of smart devices, currently deployed in the world, have also to deal with an easy …
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Empirical evidence of utility sponsored conservation programs
Utility sponsored conservation programs encourage participants to consume less energy. One of the most popular methods used to achieve this is to offer monetary rebates to purchasers of high-efficiency appliances. The costs of these conservation programs are then passed-on to all customers as …