In Unseen, Unchecked, Unsafe: What Crawlspaces Can Hide , Luke Anglea gives practical advice on why homeowners should pay ...

Abstract: In renewable energy power systems, high-frequency transformers must withstand complex electric fields, which can easily cause discharge or degradation of solid insulation, leading to ...

Some types of insulation are cheap and easy to use, but they may come with significant drawbacks, like being vulnerable to ...

So when buyers walk away from spray-foam homes, it’s not always because foam is automatically “bad.” It’s because foam can ...

'I was shaking like a leaf for half an hour,' he said, recalling his first face-to-face encounter with the bear, who roared and growled at the homeowner Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

This housemate is utterly unbearable. A California homeowner has been desperately trying to evict an unwanted guest from his property — a 500-pound black bear that’s moved into the crawl space beneath ...

Closed-cell self-expanding foam (spray foam) is an amazing material that sees common use in construction. But one application that we hadn’t heard of before was using it to fill the internal voids of ...

Abstract: This article investigates the effect of antioxidant grafting on the electrical properties of polypropylene (PP) insulation for HVDC cables. The dc conductivity, space charge distribution, ...

Growing up, Theresa Hoffmann wanted to be an astronaut. ‘I’ve always been drawn towards space, and I was always excited about materials that could be used in space. The slogan at my university was ...