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Eupeptic pointed out some problems with the garage, and I had some ideas for changes, so here's a corrected version. This one matches up with the stories better, assuming the delivery guy dropped the letter off at the south entrance.
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Posted by Cougar 14 years ago Report
Ah yes, consistency is your friend. Maybe your complainy friend, but your friend. ;3
Posted by Eupeptic 14 years ago Report
Uhoh. The big woozle knows my name. :)
Animal Planet, huh? Does he think of it as Food TV, or is he hoping to see a relative?
Electric heat in (what used to be) a four-bay garage... their jobs must pay well. (Or they just have Savage eat the meter reader.)
Posted by Strega 14 years ago Report
Maybe he's watching it for the hot tiger on tiger videos, and the lion on lion ones, for when he's feeling adventurous. Those lions, such exhibitionists. 83
It's characteristic of open bays to use electric heating. All the warm air could be lost in minutes if they have a couple of bay doors open, so they rely on radiative heating. At least, that was my experience when I worked in a large Quonset hut hangar.
Maybe he's watching it for the hot tiger on tiger videos. 83
Posted by Eupeptic 14 years ago Report
I wasn't objecting to the technique as much as the fuel. :)
Most of the open bay structures I've been in do indeed use multiple heaters instead of central forced air. The oldest one (1940s) had a (natural-gas-fired) boiler, so it had steam radiators hanging from the ceiling (with electric fans on the back). Slightly newer ones had multiple gas-fired (natural or propane) heaters hanging from the ceiling (with electric fans on the back). Some of the big-box home improvement stores have gas-fired infrared/radiant heaters on the ceiling (that don't have fans); these tend to be long and skinny with a reflector.
Electric heat is *expensive*. It gets installed in Florida or south Texas, where you only need heat for like 5 days a year, and the money will be lost in the noise of the summer A/C bill. Further north, it only gets installed in places where you won't have to use it much - summer cabins, or very small structures (toll booths, guard shacks). On the other hand, I can only think of one or two organizations that would still be using a large Quonset hut as a hangar, and one of them has an infinite supply of somebody else's money available. :)
(And yes, I do feel a bit like the guy at the computer in http://xkcd.com/386/ for writing all this.)
Posted by Strega 14 years ago Report
To be fair, the heaters in question (at the quonset hut) were 30 feet up, so they might have been gas fired. I just assumed they were electric. And yes, they were on an Air Force base, the people in question who can spend other peoples' money. 83