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by saeranv 7y ago
Yes, ACs are heat pumps, which means they're just moving heat from one area to another. So yes, the heat shed by human beings via evaporative cooling, is then dumped outside via heat of vaporization. Specifically the ambient indoor air
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by saeranv 8y ago
Kinda the other way around. NIMBY's prefer, and advocate for more single-family housing which tends to consume drastically more energy (per person) then more efficient multi-residential buildings, which they oppose. No need to limit po
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by saeranv 8y ago
Let's put it this way, do you feel a monarchy is as equally corruptible as a democracy? Both are institutions constructed by greedy, corrupt, stupid, fallible human beings. It's just that the latter has built in several mechanisms
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by saeranv 8y ago
Belief in science is nothing like belief in religion. The former, ultimately, is a belief, based on evidence, in the scientific method (empirically acquiring knowledge). So yes, I would argue that even if someone doesn't understand all
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by saeranv 8y ago
Agreed! Why would anyone risk using Seaborn after seeing the way that library author treated potential contributors pointing out a valid bug.
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by saeranv 8y ago
Yes. We run energy/thermal comfort simulations to figure out where it's reasonable to to impose thermal discomfort on our inhabitants. If our energy models tell us that there's one extreme week that will be really hot, but we
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by saeranv 8y ago
This is an odd perspective for me. Most buildings built from 1960's onward relied heavily on HVAC systems for conditioning the indoors. I would say the emphasis on energy efficiency has spurred the opposite, to reduce reliance on HVAC
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by saeranv 8y ago
That's exactly what I found, but I think I'm more forgiving then your are. I agree, Watts is a smartass for certain* concepts, however I thought it worked in Blindsight because the story and concept is so original, and though-prov
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by saeranv 8y ago
Probably my favorite hard sci-fi book. I haven't found the rest of the author's books (Peter Watts) as good, but I'm hoping his upcoming books change that. The sequel to Blindsight especially is a frustratingly opaque book, w
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by saeranv 8y ago
Exactly, even if you have closed loop geothermal heat pumps (which more efficiently exchanges heat from the thermal mass of the ground and the refrigerant pumped through a heat exchanger) you are still limited in the amount of heat the refr
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by saeranv 8y ago
Well evaporative cooling, and ground-source energy similar to this does get used in modern architecture. Cooling towers are used to evaporatively cool waste heat from the circulating water in HVAC systems. Thermal labryinths, or earth duct
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by saeranv 8y ago
I think this article specifically https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busi... ?
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by saeranv 8y ago
One I've been thinking about: the building design industry's ability to couple mechanical energy systems to passive energy strategies and building geometry/material. Mechanical engineers have figured out all sorts of clever w
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by saeranv 8y ago
I'm glad they're doing this, and I think there are more ways to use data to make this political argument for increasing housing supply. Specifically, I think one potential application of data to break up zoning limitations & N
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UNStudio Launches Tech Startup for Developing Smart Cities(architectmagazine.com)
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by saeranv 9y ago
I think it's inaccurate and unhelpful to blame the "popular press" and contributes to making a false equivalence about the role of journalism to today's toxic politics (which I find very frustrating). Such a phrase can i
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by saeranv 9y ago
That is interesting. I've had to run building energy simulations where I spent a lot of time running through similar scenarios while trying to figure out set points for an automated natural ventilation system. It went pretty much exact
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by saeranv 9y ago
One more cool idea: setting translucent Phase Change Materials (PCM) directly against your windows. PCMs are wax-like material that have a high latent heat of fusion (energy it takes to change the phase of material i.e solid -> liquid).
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by saeranv 9y ago
Controlling the sunlight is important, but it's important to remember that the outdoor ambient temperature, and interior heat gains from occupants and equipment will play a large role in interior temperature - especially in larger buil
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by saeranv 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a good point. There's a couple of links here that time-lapse the meter across a consistent 2D or 3D voxel space which gives a better idea of the radiation field, but some are clearly
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by saeranv 9y ago
So does this mean infrared wavelengths are around the lower limit for taking images with a reasonable size camera? I've played around with the thermal IR camera attachements for smartphones (i.e https://www.amazon.com/F
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by saeranv 9y ago
Thanks for explaining that makes sense. What kind of metering device will glow based on these kinds of EM fields?
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by saeranv 9y ago
The video doesn't really explain what they're doing though. Can anyone explain how they're visualizing the EM fields here?
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by saeranv 9y ago
This seems a bit simplistic, or I'm not understanding your comment. It is trivial to prove that you have to sometimes deprioritize an individual's success in order to ensure group success. For example, it is beneficial to tax rich
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Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance(washingtonpost.com)
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American Equity, by Sam Altman(hackernoon.com)
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by saeranv 9y ago
I'm not involved, but I've met the researcher at a couple of computational architecture conferences: Mark Burry - https://www.rmit.edu.au/media-objects/multimedia/video/proje... The other interestin
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Toronto’s best hope for affordable rental housing faces hardships(theglobeandmail.com)
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by saeranv 10y ago
Also check out their git issues: https://github.com/wikihouseproject/Wren/issues They're working on it.
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by saeranv 10y ago
Thanks for posting Alastair! What will be the status of your Rhino/Grasshopper process as you move over to your browser-based generative software? Will it still be integrated and supported, or are you phasing it out? I ask because it i

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