You know you think about it. That one GQ, the one question that you can not just answer, but fuckin answer and have everyone glowing in awe of your…umm…awesomeness. Maybe it’s your job, or field of study, maybe it’s about a passionate hobby of yours, or something you just finished reading a very big book about. Regardless, you sit in your chair and hope and pray that someday, somehow, someone will post that question for which you can be God of.
Here’s a couple of mine:
How does the heart beat? (though I’d have to make sure to beat the actual doctors to the punch on this one.)
Anything hockey strategy and coaching related.
Anything about hockey goalies from technique to psychology and beyond.
I’d like someone to ask about Weiqi, but I am definately not an expert on the game.
By placing massive walls or floors inside the building’s thermal insulation, and adding lots of insulation to reduce the rate of heat flow in or out.
It is often necessary to heat or cool the mass to get it to the desired room temperature. Once the mass is at room temperature, it will absorb heat when something tries to warm the room or give off heat when something tries to cool the room.
Thank you! It’s even more interesting when you see such a house and realise that it needs no furnace even in midwinter, because the large windows on the sunside are admitting all the heat it needs. And then you see the same house in midsummer, and the sun angles are all different and the house is remaining cool and shady.
Ecological design is good, but seeing the lower operating costs as extra money in one’s pocketbook is even better.
This, by the way, is where my username comes from.
