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There's a story behind almost anything. All you have to do is dig a little in order to find it. Here's a glimpse into the history of the Singer Sewing Machine factory in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which we passed on the container ship MV Monte Rosa our way to our berth.
SINGER PLANT CLOSING: A WAY OF LIFE ENDS
By WILLIAM E. GEIST, Special to the New York Times
Published: February 23, 1982
ELIZABETH, N.J., Feb. 19— The Singer Company is closing its mammoth plant here. Moving on to a marketing strategy of more costeffective foreign production and diversification in aerospace products, it is finished with this aging city now.
So intertwined have their lives become - this company and this city -during their 109 years together that many people here can only shake their heads and say, as Morris Finkel did, ''It just doesn't seem possible.''
In their heads echo the racket of the 10,000-worker assembly lines, the cheering on the tool department's softball teams, the big bands playing at dances in the company's hall on the shore of Newark Bay.
It has been more than a professional relationship, and the community now feels scorned. ''Working at the Singer plant,''''was a way of life,'' said Mr. Finkel, who was there for 44 years. ''It was the natural thing for a young man coming out of high school to do. Everyone in town seems to have worked there at some point.''
A machine operator and first-baseman, Mr. Finkel recalls that the company recruited top athletes during the 1930's, 40's and 50's from nearby high schools and other companies to work for it and play ball.
''Everyone in town went to those games,'' said Sophie Kobylinsky. Mrs. Kobylinsky also has fond recollections of company dances on Friday and Saturday nights during that period, to which women were not admitted without bringing cookies and cakes, with the company supplying soft drinks and beer.
''Singer's recreation hall was the center of social activity for the whole town,'' she said. ''My girlfriend and I didn't work at Singer, but we went to the dances. She met her future husband there.''
Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey and other top bands played at gala company affairs. Wedding receptions, bar mitzvah parties and other functions took place in the company hall.
Mayor Thomas Dunn recalls that thousands of people used to gather at the plant each year for a springtime demonstration by the company's fire department in which a house specially built for the occasion was burned to the ground.
The gargantuan red-brick plant was built here in 1873, during America's industrial revolution. The city of Elizabeth grew up around it, with neighborhoods representing the waves of immigrants who came to the plant from Ellis Island, a few miles away: German, Italian, Irish, Jewish, Polish, Lithuanian and others.
Mayor Dunn, whose father worked at the plant for 41 years, has childhood memories of earning nickels by ''rushing the growler,'' a job as common for a boy in Elizabeth as delivering newspapers was in other towns. He said German workers lowered covered beer pails, called ''growlers,'' out the windows of the factory on ropes to the boys, who would rush them over to Grampp's tavern to be filled.
Joseph DiBella recalls that the ''growlers'' he carried were heavily larded to hold down the head and allow room for more beer. Donald Wylie, who once edited a local newspaper, says a Catholic priest roamed the streets, knocking the pails from the children's hands.
People in the city have fond memories of the long relationship, but now they are bitter that the company is leaving them, particularly when Elizabeth is having unemployment and revenue problems.
''We're being done in,'' Mr. Wylie said, ''by outside influences - malls taking business and cheap labor in Japan and Taiwan taking jobs.''
Not that they are completely surprised; things had not been right between the city and the company since Singer began gradually moving its operations overseas 25 years ago. Closing Announced Feb. 11
The dances and the recreational activities came to a halt, and in the early 1970's the company deeded away the recreation hall to be used by local groups. The work force dwindled, then dropped off sharply in 1980 when the plant stopped making all but industrial sewing machines. Now, only about 950 people work at the plant. Still, the closing, announced Feb. 11, is traumatic.
Mr. DiBella, president of Local 461 of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, said that the union would file a $15 million damage suit against Singer for not living up to its contractual agreement, made last year, to spend $2 million to make the plant more efficient so it could compete with the modern technology of the foreign producers, and also to seek defense contract work for the plant.
''They did neither,'' Mr. DiBella said. Representative Matthew J. Rinaldo has also charged that the company made no valid attempt to obtain defense contracts. 'Reduced Demand for Machines'
Singer officials contend that the company sought defense work but could find none. The company plans to spend the $2 million to modernize the plant before it is closed at the end of this year ''in order to live up to the contract,'' said a spokesman, Thomas Elliott.
He said that the plant was closing because of ''reduced demand for the industrial machines produced there,'' partly because of the recession.
''Singer officials told me that they'd never move their industrial sewing machine operation out of Elizabeth,'' Mayor Dunn said. ''Their word doesn't mean a thing. We reduced their taxes by $417,000 over four years when they gave us the impression that would keep them open, but they were just taking us for a ride.''
During the lunch hour at Shoban's, a shot-and-a-beer bar across First Street from the plant's main gate, a Singer supervisor wondered aloud whether the United States was not turning into a nation of two kinds of people: white-collar managers for multinational companies that produced their products overseas, and unemployed workers.
Later in the day, S. L. Jones summed up the prevailing mood of the rank-and-file workers, many of whom said they believed the company capitalized on cheap immigrant labor until the union negotiated the first contract in the 1940's, then began moving its operations overseas to capitalize on other ''oppressed'' workers.
''Now it seems like they just used us up,'' Mr. Jones said, ''and left us behind.''
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Three Levels of passive solar energy use for homes:
Pragmatic:
Many detached suburban houses can achieve reductions in heating expense without obvious changes to their appearance, comfort or usability.
This is done using good siting and window positioning, small amounts of thermal mass, with good but conventional insulation and occasional supplementary heat from a central radiator connected to a water heater.
Sunrays may fall onto a wall during the daytime, which will radiate heat in the evening.
Annualized:
Historically, most "passive solar" approaches have depended on near-daily solar capture and storage, only expected to maintain temperatures through a few days and nights. These are now termed "short-cycle passive solar".
More recent research has developed techniques to capture warm-season solar heat, convey it to a seasonal thermal store for use months later during the cool or cold season. This is referred to as "annualized passive solar." This requires large amounts of thermal mass. One technique buries water-proof insulation in 7-metre skirts around the foundation, and buries loops of plastic pipe or ducts under the foundations and slab. The "skirts" of insulation prevent heat leaks from weather or water.
Minimum machinery:
A "purely passive" solar-heated house would have no mechanical furnace unit, relying instead on energy captured from sunshine, only supplemented by "incidental" heat energy given off by lights, candles , other task-specific appliances (such as those for cooking, entertainment, etc.), showering, people and pets. The use of natural air currents (rather than mechanical devices such as fans) to circulate air is related, though not strictly solar design.
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The term solar panel is best applied to a flat solar thermal collector, such as a solar hot water or air panel used to heat water, air, or otherwise collect solar thermal energy. But 'solar panel' may also refer to a photovoltaic module which is an assembly of solar cells used to generate electricity. In all cases, the panels are typically flat, and are available in various heights and widths.
An array is an assembly of solar-thermal panels or photovoltaic (PV) modules; the panels can be connected either in parallel or series depending upon the design objective. Solar panels typically find use in residential, commercial, institutional, and light industrial applications.
Solar-thermal panels saw widespread use in Florida and California until the 1920s when tank-type water heaters replaced them. A thriving manufacturing business soon dwindled. However, solar-thermal panels are still in production, and are common in portions of the world where energy costs, and solar energy availability, are high as a direct result of today’s global warming effects .
Recently there has been a surge toward large scale production of PV modules. In parts of the world with significantly high insolation levels, PV output and their economics are enhanced. PV modules are the primary component of most small-scale solar-electric power generating facilities. Larger facilities, such as solar power plants typically contain an array of reflectors (concentrators), a receiver, and a thermodynamic power cycle, and thus use solar-thermal rather than PV.
The largest solar panel in the world is under construction in the south of Portugal. A 116-megawatt facility covering a 250-hectare south-facing hillside in the southern Alentejo region and it will produce electricity for 25,000 households.
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Solar radiation reaches the Earth's upper atmosphere at a rate of 1366 watts per square meter (W/m2).
While traveling through the atmosphere 6% of the incoming solar radiation (insolation) is reflected and 16% is absorbed resulting in a peak irradiance at the equator of 1,020 W/m². Average atmospheric conditions (clouds, dust, pollutants) further reduce insolation by 20% through reflection and 3% through absorption.
Atmospheric conditions not only reduce the quantity of insolation reaching the Earth's surface but also affect the quality of insolation by diffusing incoming light and altering its spectrum.
After passing through the Earth's atmosphere, most of the sun's energy is in the form of visible and Infrared radiations. Plants use solar energy to create chemical energy through photosynthesis. Humans regularly use this energy burning wood or fossil fuels, or when simply eating the plants.
A recent concern is "Global Dimming" an effect of pollution that is allowing less sunlight to reach the Earth's surface. It is intricately linked with pollution particles and global warming, and it is mostly of concern for issues of global climate change, but is also of concern to proponents of solar power because of the existing and potential future decreases in available solar energy. The order of magnitude is about 4% less solar energy available at sea level over the timeframe of 1961–90, mostly from increased reflection from clouds back into outer space.
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Conductivity monitoring for freshwater and stable saltwater applications
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One of our most important partners has a branch office in this building above. The RheinauArtOffice is the best example for ecological sustainability and cost effectiveness. For example it uses geothermal energy for the cooling etc. I really much like the concept and even more I like the architecture. The second thing in the picture is our great marina near the rhine. I wouldn't go so far to compare it with any other serious marina in the world, but I swear, we did our best here in cologne... My dentist, who has her doctor's office with a view to the water says that she misses one or two light, to illuminate the landing stages. Insofar we can easily increase the attractiveness of the facility. Now I say goodbye for today and I wish you a nice and relaxing evening.
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This kind of PVC curtain, made of several plastic strings, is useful for giving a good and clean view of the goods (drinks and food) displayed on the shelves. Thus, it is very useful for Energy Savings: it avoids temp losses. Maintain cold temperatures. Effective insulating barrier. Reliable and affordable. Full customizable.
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