Wood fires banned for 24 hours in season's first Spare the Air alert
Wood fires are banned in fireplaces and stoves in the Bay Area through noon Thursday as a result of the first Spare the Air declaration since wood fires were banned on no-burn days.

SURVIVING THE ECONOMY: Heating with coal and wood
SURVIVING THE ECONOMY: Heating with coal and wood

Proposed liquid fuels plant could help Alaska gas pipeline plans
Any of the several proposed pipelines, if built, could get natural gas to Fairbanks. But if natural gas is priced too high, people in Fairbanks might not be willing to invest the money needed to hook into distribution lines, buy new boilers and give up heating oil and firewood.

Ferris, SJC look at pact
San Jacinto College South department of air conditioning technology was selected for a visit from Ferris State University (FSU) on Friday, November 14. FSU is one of two universities in the country offering bachelor?s degrees focused on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and is the producer of the primary HVAC textbook used by San Jacinto College.

Increase in wood burning has Juneau facing pollution problem
Residents looking for a cheaper alternative to heating oil have turned to wood stoves, and as a result the city is often approaching federal limits for air quality.

Emerson Pushes Back Plans For Ark. Plant
Officials say a heating and air company will delay opening a manufacturing plant in Batesville hoped to bring nearly 400 new jobs to northern Arkansas.

Energy alert
With a leak the size of 3,800 milk crates, the Benfield family of Landing suffers from extreme air loss.

Preferential Heating Blow Molder uses linear technology.
Built for flexible operation, SBO 4 Compact(TM) Preferential Heating machine can produce flat bottles and complex shapes in PET at production rates up to 5,600 bottles/hr and may also be configured to run standard production bottles. While optimized for preferential heating, SBO can also be run for standard production via reconfiguration that takes less than 30 min. Quick Change molds reduce ...

Air quality proposals going to Council
Hawke?s Bay Regional Council will be deciding on measures to improve the winter air quality in Napier and Hastings at their meeting on Wednesday 26 November.

Neglecting The Heating and Cooling Unit Could Be Costly
Regular maintenance and replacing filters can prevent costly repairs from adding up.

Suburban Trends
A second question will be added to April's school referendum that, if green-lighted, would fund new windows and heating, ventilating and air conditioning control repairs in two elementary schools.

SoCal heating gas costs at a 2-year low
Tumbling energy prices mean consumers pay less.

Saving money on heating bills
Action News shows you simple things around the house than can help save money on your heating bill.

Building renovation approved
Norwin School Board voted 7-2, with members Tom Sturm and Donald Rhodes opposed, to spend $1.06 million to remodel the district's administration building.  read more »

SURVIVING THE ECONOMY: Home heating costs
SURVIVING THE ECONOMY: Home heating costs

RRDC Adds Outside Air Cooling
November 18, 2008 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- On the outskirts of Denver, the Red Rocks Data Center will now be cooled for more than 80 percent of the year by cool mountain air, after installing an air economizer that pulls in and filters outside air to cool customers' servers.

The Heat is on at Mandarin Pines
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Tenants of a Mandarin apartment complex are not able to switch their central air from cooling to heating. The complex manager says they might not turn the heat on until December 1st.

Q&A on the pill and smoking, air ducts and allergies
Though birth control pills combining the hormones estrogen and progesterone are safe for many women over 35, 45 and even 50, they are not a good choice for older women who smoke or have certain health problems, says the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. This week, I feature two "why" questions: one about smoking and birth control pills and one about home air-duct cleaning.

Dollars & Sense: Save on home heating
This winter it might not cost a lot to keep your toes warm.

Political Blog
From the Stephens Media team in Arkansas and Washington D.C. State highways would benefit from proposed stimulus package By Rob Moritz LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas could receive up to $177.5 million for highway projects under competing economic stimulus packages being considered by Congress, the director of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department said Wednesday.

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