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Science 2 May 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4443, pp. 494 - 495
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4443.494
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Radiant Heat for Energy Conservation

R. V. POUND 1

1 Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

It is proposed that human comfort could be provided in otherwise chilly surroundings by filling the occupied space with electromagnetic energy of centimeter wavelength. Very considerable reductions in the consumption of energy required for the heating of buildings should result from the lowering of interior temperatures thereby permitted.

Submitted on December 4, 1979
Revised on February 19, 1980

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