{"id":660440,"date":"2010-02-10T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:13:45","slug":"insulation%e2%80%a6-of-tomorrow-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660440","title":{"rendered":"Insulation\u2026 OF TOMORROW | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool: recent tech advances have lowered the cost of making aerogel sufficiently <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-02\/aerogels-hit-consumer-insulation-market\">that it can be used for home insulation<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2006\/01\/15\/i-meant-stardust-home\/files\/2006\/aerogel_ba.jpg?w=780\" class=\"alignright\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2006\/01\/15\/i-meant-stardust-home\/\">I&#8217;ve written about his bizzaro stuff before<\/a>: it&#8217;s a silica gel that has so many air pockets in it it is essentially barely more dense than air itself. It has a lot of uses, like putting on board spacecraft to catch particles from comets. But it&#8217;s such a good insulator that it may very well revolutionize the industry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been around since before the space program, so we can&#8217;t attribute this invention to space age tech, but it does have a lot of uses, and I bet as the price lowers people will find lots of other ways to use it. <\/p>\n<p>I love living in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gWXc53FgCNFISiPURhFF5eFYgQA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gWXc53FgCNFISiPURhFF5eFYgQA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gWXc53FgCNFISiPURhFF5eFYgQA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gWXc53FgCNFISiPURhFF5eFYgQA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/3jEefnlsV6I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/FWDkdAooOrM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool: recent tech advances have lowered the cost of making aerogel sufficiently that it can be used for home insulation! I&#8217;ve written about his bizzaro stuff before: it&#8217;s a silica gel that has so many air pockets in it it is essentially barely more dense than air itself. It has a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LOg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}