The Invisible Warmth and the Physics of NeglectI’ve spent thirty years crawling through spider-infested crawlspaces and baking on asphalt rooftops, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that…
The Radiant Manifesto: Why Physics Doesn’t Care About Your ThermostatMy old mentor used to scream at me until he was purple in the face, 'You can't cool what you can't…
The Fool’s Errand: Heating the AtmosphereI once worked under an old mentor, a man who had more refrigerant in his lungs than oxygen. He used to scream, "You can't heat…
The Physics of Heat: Why Your Shop Floor is Still an Ice RinkMy old mentor used to scream, 'You can't heat what you can't touch!' while we were shivering in…
The Physics Lesson: Why You Can’t Heat What You Can’t ReachMy old mentor, a man who had more soot in his lungs than a 19th-century chimney sweep, used to bark…
The Ghost of Cold Iron: Why Your Shop Is FreezingI’ve spent thirty years dragging my tool bag through attics and crawling into the guts of industrial warehouses, and I’ll tell…
The Cold Reality of Off-Grid ComfortThere is a specific kind of silence you only find in a cabin deep in the woods when the temperature hits five below. It is…
The Sound of Silence and the Smell of ColdThere is a specific kind of silence that hits you when you walk into a workshop or a home addition in the…
The Silence of the Cold: Why That 'Cheap' Heater is a TrapThere is a specific sound a house makes when the furnace gives up the ghost in the dead of…
The Sound of a Silent Furnace and the Gravity of Radiant HeatWhen the grid goes dark in the middle of a February whiteout and your high-efficiency blower motor hums its…