The activity survey included information on cooking activities, heating practices, fuel usage, outdoor activities, and sleeping habits.
Rubbing his goatee, he held a half-full bottle of a fruit-punch flavored sports drink and the keys to his custom, white sport utility vehicle in the parking lot of Palm Beach Community College, where the Heat practices.
Her book demonstrates how architecture, furniture making, cooking and heating practices, as well as ideas about labour, children and gender, fashioned the home, making a compelling account of what was gained and lost in the quest for cosiness.
However, power cuts were not found to cause explicit, persistent changes in heating practices.
By domestic heating practices, I refer to the doings and sayings concerning heat provision for detached houses.
I present a qualitative study of domestic space heating practices and their interruption in the context of detached houses.
The setting of these parameters allows the thermodynamic evaluation of engineering heating practices in separate locations.
The interview study that I have presented in this paper provides an account of the domestic heating practices in the normal state and in a state of disruption.
This paper contributes to the discussions on the role of the user in hybrid systems of energy provision by discussing disruptions in domestic heating practices, specifically focusing on the practice of heating in domestic settings in a Finnish rural municipality.
Whereas the home as a site of diverse heating practices is increasingly policy relevant and studies of adoption and domestication of novelties are increasing in number, few empirical accounts have addressed the everydayness of renewable energy technologies.
