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2. Patio heater - Wikipedia

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   Wall-mounted patio heater: fixed to a wall or structure making for safe operation. Hanging patio heater: portable and small footprint; comes in electric only. Tabletop patio heater: ultra-portable and great for smaller groups or outdoor dining, but it uses a small propane tank. Patio heaters have become popular with bars and restaurants, since ...

3. Radiant heating and cooling - Wikipedia

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   Radiant heating and cooling. Radiant heating and cooling is a category of HVAC technologies that exchange heat by both convection and radiation with the environments they are designed to heat or cool. There are many subcategories of radiant heating and cooling, including: "radiant ceiling panels", [1] "embedded surface systems", [1] "thermally ...

4. Shed - Wikipedia

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   A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure, often used for storage, for hobbies, or as a workshop, and typically serving as outbuilding, such as in a back garden or on an allotment. Sheds vary considerably in their size and complexity of construction, from simple open-sided ones designed to cover bicycles or garden items to ...

5. Passive cooling - Wikipedia

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   Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or no energy consumption. [1][2] This approach works either by preventing heat from entering the interior (heat gain prevention) or by removing heat from the building (natural ...

6. Building envelope - Wikipedia

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   Discussion. The building envelope or enclosure is all of the elements of the outer shell that maintain a dry, heated, or cooled indoor environment and facilitate its climate control. Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice that draws from all areas of building science and indoor climate control.

7. Electric heating - Wikipedia

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   Electric heating is a process in which electrical energy is converted directly to heat energy. Common applications include space heating, cooking, water heating and industrial processes. An electric heater is an electrical device that converts an electric current into heat. [1] The heating element inside every electric heater is an electrical ...