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District Heating

Date released

1975

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

863

NoS ID

329104

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Alison Hawkes’ story this week is a load of old rubbish. But this rubbish provides heating and hot water for one hundred thousand people living in Nottingham. And in our pre-wrapped...

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Heating (2003)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 35 minutes), £65.00

Examines the evolution of modern central heating. It describes early heating and hot water systems of the early 20th century and goes on to explain the principles of modern wet systems. It includes footage...

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Walter Marshall on research into alternative energy (1979)

Genre

Interview

Dr Walter Marshall on research into alternative energy. He says that only a third of energy produced in power stations is converted into electricity. He says hot water could also be distributed around towns...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.25: Programme 25 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 25 Programme 25 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 April 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY. TRACK...

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Piping Hot (1989 Video)

Producer

Philip Ashby

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Studies combined heat and power (CHP), and district heating systems, and shows examples of both - Rotterdam, where a centrally situated power station, Schiehaven, has been converted to CHP and supplies how...

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Diary of an Ecobuild (2006)

Director

Anne Gallagher

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £30.00

Charts the conversion of a terraced building in the Welsh Valleys into an environmentally friendly and energy self-sufficient building. Goes quite deeply, though in layman’s language, into this ecological...

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Introduction to the Control of Legionella Bacteria in Water Systems, An (2003)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety; Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

This video looks at the two main risk systems in turn - cooling towers and hot and cold water systems and explains how the risks from exposure to legionella should be managed and controlled, specifically by...

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Surrey. Cows and Coal.

Date released

1962

Series name

Mining Review Composite Editions

NoS ID

346596

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: How coal is used at a dairy for heating water, etc.

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Water Hammer (1995)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

out of distribution, Free to UK higher education institutions

A CAL simulation for building engineering that deals with the water hammer effect (transient pressure propagation) and identification of strategies to control the effect. Relevant in a range of areas as...

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Coal House, The (2008)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £13.99

Three families experience life in the south of Wales coalfield of the 1920s. The families swap their modern luxuries for the harsh reality of daily life of a coalmining family, living in coalminers’...

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