[Greenbuilding] (not really) Re: sub-grade heat loss was passive haus article

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n Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:53:05 -0400, Norbert Senf <mheat at mha-net.org> wrote:

> At 09:01 AM 8/22/2013 -0400, John Straube wrote:
>> ..."Heat flows through a material at a rate based only on the  
>> temperature difference and the thermal resistance of the intervening  
>> layer"..
>
> Hey, that would make a good tattoo, in case anybody forgets


That MeatHook ... one wild and crazy guy. Eh ?

It just so happens that one night, long ago in my mis-spent yoot as a  
student at Univ of Waterloo, after having spent wa-a-a-y too much time  
carousing in the physics lab trying to find flaws in the Dirac equation   
...
when heading back to Environmental Studies II, we had to pass by "The  
Submarine" (the entrance to the subterranean engineering lecture halls) we  
were bushwhacked by a gang of thugs dressed in black, shrouded robes,   
shackled by the chains they were carrying and taken down into the dark  
depths of The Submarine where they forced beer down our throats (from the  
kegs they had stock-piled down there) until we passed out.

We awoke days later to find ourselves in what turned out to be Arizona,  
with our pants on backwards and our wallets/ID missing.

In putting our pants back on frontwards, someone noticed that we had all  
received tattoos onto our backsides:

          "  q  =  A [ dT ( K/s + hc ) +  ( σ * T^4 ) ]  "

... which of course, you will recognise as the WatJohn phrase quoted  
above, written in EnginoidalSpeak.

We later determined that those thugs in dark robes who had Shanghai'd us  
were engineers who, as part of their traditional rituals regularly  
invaded/disrupted Architecture students' maths and structures lectures  
which were held in "their" realm, the Eng. Lecture Halls.

So, we did get the tattoo of the equation for (conductive + convective +  
radiative)  heat transfer  as Norbert (who just happens to be an engineer)  
suggested, but those dastardly enginoids had it imprinted onto our arses  
so that one could not easily refer to it when in polite company.

One suspects that this is an inside joke amongst enginoidal sorts because  
more than once when I've encountered an engineer, one of the first things  
out of their mouth will be:

  "Say, can you tell me the rate of heat transfer for ... "



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