If you have these types of bypasses in your attic, my recommendation is to hire an insulation contractor to seal the air leaks. They’ll know where to look and how to seal them properly. If you want to do the work yourself, download this guide from the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Attic Bypasses, and this guide from Building Science.com, Attic Air Sealing Guide and Details. These guides both give some excellent information on how to properly seal all of these air leaks yourself, and they discuss other concerns that need to be considered when performing attic air sealing, such as combustion appliance safety, knob & tube wiring, and vermiculite insulation.

I filled one pantyhose leg with “Ice Melt”, which contained a blend of calcium chloride and rock salt. I filled another with an ice-melting salt that didn’t have the contents labeled; I suspect it was just rock salt. I also poured the Ice Melt in a perpendicular line along the ice dam, using far less salt than I used in either of the pantyhose. I did this just to compare the results.

The government approved a proposal for state-run hydro power giant NHPC to take over debt-laden Lanco’s 500 MW Teesta hydro-electric power project in Sikkim. The project would be implemented with an estimated cost of Rs57.48 bn (at July 2018 price level). The project would generate 2,400 mn units of power in 90 percent dependable year with installed capacity of 500 MW (125 MWX4). Teesta Stage-VI hydro-electric project is a run of river scheme in Sirwani Village of Sikkim to utilise the power potential of Teesta river basin in cascade manner. The project shall help in meeting peaking demand of energy, balancing and ramping requirement of the grid.

The current quarter, we had — just give me a minute, Rohan. We’ll just see the export numbers for the quarter. We have the overall year. Can we come back to you on this?

Okay. So we have already — so any — that number, can you suggest at how much we have provided for that?

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority said it has issued a Request for Qualification for developers to build and operate the fifth phase of its Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The solar park is a vast complex that aims to generate 1,000 MW by 2020 and 5,000 MW by 2030 with investments worth 50 bn Dirhams ($13.6 bn). It currently has a capacity of 900 MW.

Old ramblers often have stairwells with nothing covering the top; you could fit an entire family into this space. It looked fine in the attic until I pulled the insulation away to show that this area was completely open.

Most nozzles on professional sprayers are classified for 75pc drift reduction, while some are classified for 90pc reduction and enable the user to reduce the buffer width.

Yes, so. I would just comment first by saying we’re very early in the life of those converts, right. So, while there are currently in the money and we have got to consider the possibility that they would be converted both from how we treat the debt perspective and you’ll see that when the Q comes out and you look at the balance sheet, but also from a dilution perspective. The likelihood of conversion certainly in this year is relatively low. But that being said, we saw a penny of dilution in the first quarter. As we look at the full year it looks something like 10% to 12% — 12% — $0.10 to $0.12, sorry.

Also in the quarter, we received our first order totaling $850,000 for liquid hydrogen vehicle fueling station for passenger cars in California. Hydrogen is an area of fast growth and as part of our specialty markets focus in D&S West. Hydrogen as a fuel, is being used primarily in on-road light-duty vehicles called fuel-cell electric vehicles or FCEVs. While hydrogen fueling stations exist elsewhere in the world and many of those supplied by liquid hydrogen utilize our bulk tanks, it is fairly new in California. The state is pushing to become a carbon-neutral economy by 2025 and under an executive order, has set a development target of 200 stations to be completed by 2025. The state is supporting the development of fueling station infrastructure through a series of California Energy Commission grant funding opportunities. 25 stations are funded and are in the process of being permitted, installed and commissioned and out of those 25, at least eight are expected to be liquid stations.

When plumbing vents enter the attic, the space around the vents needs to be sealed.  This one obviously wasn’t.

On the fertilizer industry performance, for the quarter, phosphatic fertilizer industry sales have improved by 6% to 40 lakh tons. Complex fertilizer sales are down by 11% while DAP sales, mainly because of imports, increased by 37%.