Earthberms, solid east-west walls, radiant slab heat, sky-lighted atriums, insulated attic floors and other ecological, environmentally friendly ways to build.
At the same time, unstable air was creating a strong rising motion, sending plumes of black smoke and heat sky-high.
Hayes sets his characters against waves of heat and sky, and shows creases on tired faces and scars on a land torn apart by the quest for riches.
And I was bowled over by the spontaneous eloquence the harsh landscape evoked, how the alchemy of wind, heat and sky could be so transformative.
Of course while the oldies get hammered more, they tend to do it in the privacy in their homes (they can afford central heating and Sky multi-package).
Like him, I looked up into the roof of leaves; though thick, it had holes in it to let in what from our position looked not like a heat-exhausted sky but like stretches of pure cool silver.
The US Southwest's Most Important Measure: VPD, Vapor Pressure Deficit - think of it as a measure of a hyper drought: dryness combined with higher heat creates skies drier than land.
A terrarium is difficult to keep adequately hot, so your beardie will either be chilled or your heating bills sky high.
Dew forms on clear nights because on such nights freely exposed surfaces lose heat to the sky by radiation.
Child uses the forbidding landscape of West Texas -- the cruel heat, the lonely sky, the empty spaces -- as both a metaphor for Carmen's sense of desolation and an excuse for Reacher's pragmatic brutality.
An infrared photograph of a landscape enhances objects according to their heat emission: blue sky and water appear nearly black, whereas green foliage and unexposed skin show up brightly.
