Geothermal HVAC : green heating and cooling / Jay Egg, Brian Clark Howard. by Egg, Jay

Table of Contents: “…-- Summary -- 3: Geothermal Heat Pumps And Their Uses -- Passive and forced-air earth-coupled duct systems -- Water-source, forced-air heat pumps (water-to-air heat pumps) -- Direct expansion geothermal heat pumps -- Water-to-water heat pumps (heat pump chillers and boilers) -- Applications of geothermal heat pumps -- Pool heaters -- Domestic hot water -- Process cooling and heating -- Rooftop equipment -- Modular or piggyback units -- Package terminal heat pumps -- Vertical stack modular units -- 100% fresh air equipment -- Refrigeration systems -- Hybrid systems -- Superefficient DC HVAC -- Keeping the cows cool -- Summary -- 4: Earth Coupling Through Ground Loops -- Getting the load and loop size right -- Piping material -- Grout and backfill -- Manifolds or header systems -- Loop designs -- Vertical loops -- Horizontal loops -- Pond, lake, or ocean loops (use with caution ) -- Pumping groundwater, lake water, or seawater (open-loop systems) -- Pump and reinjection -- Standing column wells -- Surficial aquifers and caisson infiltration -- Concerns with open loops -- Open loops versus closed loops -- Summary -- 5: Introduction To Load Sharing --Benefits of load sharing -- Case of a large hotel -- Earth coupling as thermal savings bank -- Summary -- 6: Efficiency And Load Calculations Simplified -- Rating geothermal systems -- Annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) (for gas furnaces) -- Cooling load in kW/ton -- Coefficient of performance (COP) -- Energy efficiency ratio (EER) -- Determining actual efficiencies -- Load calculations -- Manuals published by the air conditioning contractors of America -- Manual J: Residential heat gain and loss analysis -- Manual N: Commercial heat gain and loss analysis -- Manual D: Residential duct design -- Manual Q: Commercial low-pressure duct design -- Energy calculations and value -- Summary -- 7: Understanding Pricing And Geothermal Systems -- Factors that affect the price of geothermal HVAC -- Efficiency rating -- Quality -- System sizes -- Topography -- Load sharing -- Sales volume and competition -- Optional upgrades -- Heat recovery for domestic hot water -- Domestic hot water geothermal heat pumps -- Exchanger materials -- Compressor stages -- Hot gas reheat -- Intermediate exchangers -- Direct digital controls (DDC) -- Summary -- 8: Incentives, Tax Credits, Rebates -- U S federal tax credits -- Commercial tax credits and incentives -- Feingold-Ensign Support Renewable Energy Act -- Home star (cash for caulkers) -- Rural Energy Saving Program Act -- State and local incentives -- PACE funding -- Summary -- 9: Understanding Geothermal Project Proposals -- Typical geothermal HVAC proposals -- Poor proposals -- Good proposals -- Summary -- 10: How To Calculate Your Payback -- Determining ROI on residential systems -- ROI on geothermal pool heat pumps -- Calculating payback periods for commercial geothermal systems -- Net present value -- 30 cents a KWh: the big impact of higher electric rates -- Summary -- 11: Verifying Your Systems -- Actual SEER and EER results -- Factors that can affect efficiency -- Regional climate issues -- How to calculate your own EER -- Data points -- Minimum efficiency standards -- Summary -- 12: Life Cycles And Longevity -- Benefits of indoor equipment -- How to determine when upgrades pay off -- Summary -- 13: Common Problems And Horror Stories -- Word on water conservation -- Common issues -- Underground hazards -- Pressurized pockets -- Broken or damaged loops -- Design and installation fails -- Choosing the wrong loop type -- Unfinished jobs -- Pushy contracts -- Miscommunication, faulty equipment, inexperience-oh my! …”

Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend.

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Teaching Tools for Microeconomics ABC News Productions.

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Social science in government : the role of policy researchers / Richard P. Nathan. by Nathan, Richard P.

Table of Contents: “…Evaluating the California GAIN Program -- The GAIN Process -- The MDRC Evaluation -- The Research Challenge -- Discoveries in the Implementation Process -- Endnotes…”
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ChatGPT and AI for accountants : a practitioner's guide to harnessing the power of GenAI to revolutionize your accounting practice / Dr. Scott Dell, Dr. Mfon Akpan. by Dell, Scott, Akpan, Mfon

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Quicklook at Accountancy Etchells, Mark. by Etchells, Mark

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Human rights Cambridge Educational (Firm).

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Roberto Calvi : The Murder Of God's Banker / Film Ideas.

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Behaviors in Bookkeeping Salon, Data. by Salon, Data

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Frontiers of Dynamic Games Game Theory and Management, St. Petersburg, 2017 / edited by Leon A. Petrosyan, Vladimir V. Mazalov, Nikolay A. Zenkevich.

Table of Contents: “…Countervailing Power with Large and Small Retailers -- Dynamic Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: The Recursive Nash Bargaining Solution -- Altruistic, Aggressive and Paradoxical Types of Behavior in a Differential Two-Person Game -- Learning in a Game of Strategic Experimentation With Three-Armed Exponential Bandits -- Solution for a System of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations of Special Type and a Link with Nash Equilibrium -- The Impact of Discounted Indices on Equilibrium Strategies of Players in Dynamical Bimatrix Games -- On Control Reconstruction Problems for Dynamic Systems Linear in Controls -- Evolution of Risk-Statuses in One Model of Tax Control -- Stationary Nash Equilibria for Average Stochastic Positional Games -- Game Equilibria and Transition Dynamics in Networks with Heterogeneous Agents -- Non-cooperative Differential Game Model of Oil Market with Looking Forward Approach -- S-Strongly Time-consistency in Differential Games -- Characteristic Functions in a Linear Oligopoly TU Game -- The Position Value and the Myerson Value for Hypergraph Communication Situations -- Bertrand Meets Ford: Benefits and Losses -- On Multilateral Hierarchical Dynamic Decisions.…”
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South Africa's Bhambatha Rebellion War of the Heads / Journeyman Pictures (Firm).

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Cost reduction and control best practices : the best ways for a financial manager to save money / Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA).

Table of Contents: “…Corporate cost-control strategies -- Human resource department costs -- Benefits costs -- Compensation costs -- 401(k) plan costs -- Training and development costs -- Accounting department costs -- Accounts payable costs -- Credit and collections costs -- Purchasing costs -- Inventory costs -- Export costs -- Outsourcing -- Downsizing -- Consultants' costs -- Business tax costs.…”
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Digitalisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Business Volume 2 / edited by Bahaaeddin Alareeni, Allam Hamdan, Reem Khamis, Rim El Khoury.

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The First Angry Man.

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Whiskey Rebellion / Makematic.

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The Big Payback / PBS.

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Europe's crisis, Europe's future / Kemal Derviş, Jacques Mistral, editors. by Mistral, Jacques

Table of Contents: “…Europe's crisis, Europe's future : an overview / Kemal Dervis and Jacques Mistral -- Greece : tax anything that moves! / Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos -- Spain : a new quest for growth / Angel Pascual-Ramsay -- Italy : strategies for moving from crisis to growth / Domenico Lombardi and Luigi Paganetto -- France : part of the solution or part of the problem? …”
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Empowering the public-private partnership. The future of America's local government / george V. Voinovich. by Voinovich, George V.

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How to Open Your Own In-home Bookkeeping Service. by Aydlott, Julie

Table of Contents: “…Entering Data from a Checkbook RegisterAccounts Payable -- Accounts Receivable -- Payroll -- Bank Reconciliation -- Sales Tax Report -- Workers Compensation -- Financial Reports -- Audit Preparation -- Financial Packages to Banking Entities -- Work In Progress -- Training and Consulting -- Budgeting -- Cleaning up Accounting and Bookkeep -- Year End Accounting -- 1099 Miscellaneous Income -- Record Keeping -- Chapter 5 Preparing Taxes and Depreciation -- Preparing your own Taxes -- Preparing Client Taxes -- Chapter 6 Common Questions…”
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Ancient Aztec Economy. by Linde, Barbara

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