Painting the Town Red!
Jim went out on the town one night recently with our MIT buddies and their super new high resolution thermal camera.
Here's a Hyde Park panorama, showing the riot of energy life in a typical urban street after dark! Remember that lighter colors in the scan are higher temperatures: if all the homes were well air-sealed and insulated, they would show up as boring blue. The brighter the yellow, the more that area is radiating expensive heat from the home into the night.
Points to notice:
-
Some of the brightest areas in the home in the center are foundation exteriors
-
Windows are obviously a generic weakness: but compare the (relatively cool) windows on the home in the center with the "white hot" windows on the next house but one to the right: that house had single pane windows with no storms!
- The front wall of the home in the center needs some extra insulation
Watch out for further images from around the city in this blog!
High resolution version here.
