tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post6852316115858592313..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: You Only Think You're Hotzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-14239774545495068702011-02-23T20:45:01.133+01:002011-02-23T20:45:01.133+01:00I think the Department of Education would respond ...I think the Department of Education would respond to that, and any other argument about almost anything they didn't want to do anything about, by sending you a map and telling you you were mistaken, George.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-22899475391261575432011-02-23T02:20:45.339+01:002011-02-23T02:20:45.339+01:00Back after the first oil shock, the Colorado legis...Back after the first oil shock, the Colorado legislature passed a law stating that all new state buildings must be built to require no air conditioning; but the law allowed space to be reserved for ducting in case a/c should be run. Effectively this gave builders a free pass to build as they wished.<br /><br />An early product of this was the library shared by some commuter colleges just west of downtown Denver. Shortly after it opened, people were fainting in the stacks and rare books had to be removed. They retrofitted it with air conditioning, which I remember as sounding awful on startup, as if a car had locked its brakes on the viaduct outside--in fact, the first time I heard it, I waited to hear a crash.<br /><br />The sad thing is that people have know for many centuries how to build for hot dry weather such as Denver gets.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com