ShootSpeeders
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Why do we have a war on white men when they are the ones who give us all these amazing high tech gadgets without which we'd still be in the stone age??? Women are social workers and blacks play sports. Men are the makers.
Zero Energy Furniture table cuts energy costs - Business Insider
may 19 2015
- Consisting simply of a surface and legs, the table is one piece of furniture that has remained largely the same for thousands of years.
But now, a French design duo has come up with a way to turn the humble table into a means of climate control that doesn't use any electricity.
Paris-based industrial designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange teamed up with French engineer Raphaël Ménard to create the Zero Energy Furniture table, also known as the ZEF Climatic Table.
The ZEF table looks like any other with the sleek design of a solid plank oak top and angled legs — but it could hold the secret to cutting energy costs by as much as 60%.
Beneath the oak table are a series of phase-changing materials (PCMs) placed between the wood and anodized aluminum bottom. The materials soften when the surrounding room reaches around 71 degrees, absorbing the excess heat, and then harden once the temperature dips back below 71 degrees, releasing the trapped heat with the help of the aluminum and causing a noticeable change in the room’s temperature.
