¶ Wind Stress & Houses
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Wind Stress & Houses:
"energy exchange events worked to provide a high pressure in closest proximity to the low-pressure side of the house and employed further energy to effect the energy release through the wall by various energy conversion principles to stabilize energy balance in the wake of the house…
"One way you ought to talk about the phenomena house and cold is that cold and vacuum are in physics almost identical-- that is you have energy in the presence of cold and in the presence of vacuum and when your energy-- either as heat of kinetically accelerated gas molecules or as radiation-- is eliminated, cold or vacuum alone remain. That is the best way for you to look at it. You see, when they say ‘cold is coming in,’ it is because energy as heat is dissipating so fast as to leave cold gases in your presence. Air that is cold because low in energy content moves to you so that you seem to feel cold draft but there is no physical entity ‘cold’. Temperature should be thought of as relative heat concentrations or dissipations…
“The large low-pressure area in the lee of the house, of course, tends to float upward thus adding to the upward angle.”
¶ Citations
- DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Header, p. 204), 1946
