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Quotes from Movable Insulation — Steve Baer

1965–2024 United States

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The effect of clothes and blankets on heat loss is naturally investigated by everyone.

Movable Insulation (1976)

Treat a glass area like a ship—break it into separate compartments so that a leak in one place won't be fatal.

Movable Insulation (1976)

The Beadwall seems to be the perfect answer for superior insulation against heat loss.

Movable Insulation (1976)

Tests done by thermal decay of a glass aquarium show a U factor of the naked glass of about 1 1/3 and of the glass covered with Nightwall, of about 1/3.

Movable Insulation (1976)

Movable insulation can... be used to prevent heat gain. ...[T]he best position ...is outside the glass rather than inside.

Movable Insulation (1976)

The great problem with movable insulation is cracks. A door, shutter, or curtain is placed... The optimist notes the R value... but does not achieve it.

Movable Insulation (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Baer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.