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“The inverter systems were running so hot at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm that they were melting the plastic ventilation fans!”

Running Fans Dangerous Hot Plastic Melting Systems Desoto Solar Farm Ventilation Inverter

Author:Steven Magee

“The indoor society is the isolated society.”

Air Society Television Computer Toxic Isolated Stale Tv Indoor Ventilation

Author:Steven Magee

“I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.”

People Hours Rooms Military Shooting Promotion Hostage Bikinis Kidnapped Coups Ventilation

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.”

Mind Real Fear Habit Disease Tolerance Misfortunes Panic Illumination Bad Habits Poise Real Courage Ventilation

Author:Elie Metchnikoff

“Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.”

Body Disease Sickness Ventilation

Author:Ovid

“There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.”

Needs Age Standpoint Surveys Thorough Ventilation

Author:John Ruskin

“What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.”

Crosses England Draught Ventilation

Author:Hermione Gingold

“Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.”

“I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Bigs Wanted School Courses Sound Natural Principles Sun Air Amount Machines London Architecture Department Abandoned Colonialism Unbelievable Tropical Ventilation

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.”

Stuff Space Walking Suits Excitement Trailers Pads Ventilation

Author:Alan Shepard

“Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.”

Running Water Levels Imagine Football Wall Drug Paper Bird Standing Legs Farms Multiple Cages Ceilings Grids Heating Printer Rectangles Ventilation

Book:Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.”

Form Interesting Building Approach Bows Passive Exterior Implicit Ventilation

Author:Jeanne Gang

“Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.”

Secret Existence Profound Ventilation

Author:Peter Sloterdijk

“But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.”

Writing Sometimes Difficult Like You Down And Writing Life Flip Crank Ventilation

Book:Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

Source: Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

“Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.”

Challenges Rooms Creative Design Development Elements Projects Structure Hunts Convincing Revival Heating Reuse Ventilation

Author:Edward Mazria

“Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.”

Ifs Mean Turns Building Storm Rage Streams Satisfying Inward Ventilation

Author:Eva Hoffman