ICS or batch collectors reduce heat loss by placing the water tank in a thermally insulated box.

Electricity is thermally generated using imported fuels.

This is the preferred method of drying of many thermally sensitive materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals.

When well insulated, a building is energy efficient, thus saving the owner money.

In electronics this often is the result of components that are thermally sensitive (since resistance of a circuit varies with the temperature of the conductors in it).

Japan s hidebound postwar regime has been insulated, externally and internally, by relatively unchanging geostrategic and economic conditions.

Internally, bankers had enormous potential to benefit from risky moves, but were insulated from the costs of failure.

This is so well insulated that the thermal energy can be usefully stored for up to a week.

Giving the ECB a quasi fiscal role, even if it is somewhat insulated from losses, risks undermining its credibility.

When Florida s banks go belly up, state finances are insulated, because the banks are ultimately the responsibility of federal institutions.

In water heat panels, fluid is usually circulated through tubing to transfer heat from the absorber to an insulated water tank.

Air Glazed systems have a transparent top sheet and insulated side and back panels to minimize heat loss to ambient air.

As a result, when the Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, China was insulated from the volatility that ravaged its fragile neighbors.

Japan could have insulated itself from a good deal of the effects of GDP fluctuations if it had managed this risk accordingly.

In addition, while China s output is affected by advanced country economic performance, its financial system is largely insulated from monetary policy externalities.

The Republican platform notes that the audit would have to be carefully implemented to ensure that the Fed remains insulated from political pressures.

Indeed, the government has emphasized that Brazil will be even more insulated as efforts to cut spending reduce dependence on external capital flows.

As Jake Ratner, a young activist who works for Just Harvest USA, points out, global corporations are often insulated from traditional tactics like boycotts.

None of the areas where illicit drugs are produced, smuggled into the country, and transported into the United States are insulated from drug related corruption.

These dilemmas can be finessed by giving both surveillance responsibilities and the actual power to disburse funds to an independent board insulated from national politics.

The first era of globalization, which lasted until 1914, was a success as long as economic and monetary policies remained insulated from domestic political pressures.

The Republican platform notes that the audit would have to be carefully implemented to ensure that the Fed remains insulated from political pressures. Indeed, it would.

Wealth taxes that target land and structures are arguably insulated from some of these concerns, and property taxes are relatively underused outside the Anglo Saxon countries.

But, despite democratization, judges and prosecutors everywhere have tended to resurrect themselves as a self appointed elite, insulated by society s desire that justice be seen as independent.

Everyone should be governed according to law, insulated from the personal discretion of those in power, and legal disputes should be resolved without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay.

Thus in the example below, an insulated cube of about 2.8 m would appear to provide sufficient storage for a single house to meet 50 of heating demand.

He was thinking of the earth as, kind of like, you know, like a completely insulated thing with no stuff in it, really, just energy coming down, energy leaving.

Two panels of technical experts are the ones to judge trends in copper prices and output, respectively, insulated from the political processes that can otherwise succumb to wishful thinking.

Growing fear of foreign competition ought to explain a lot of things in the future. People used to feel insulated from economic problems that occurred beyond their country's borders.

These markets have been insulated in part because most investment in real estate backed securities has come from local investors who often need to invest in local currency markets.

The delegation of monetary policy to an independent central bank is the archetypal example in the service of price stability, daily management of monetary policy is insulated from politics.

Democracies often deal with the problem of extracting commitments from future politicians by delegating decision making to quasi independent bodies managed by officials who are insulated from day to day politics.

The novelty of the rapid economic improvements seen by many city dwellers in India, China, and elsewhere over the past ten years has insulated governments from the repercussions of poor urban planning.

The past two generations have witnessed the rise of independent central banks whose monetary policy, largely insulated from partisan politics, aims for the maximum possible employment and purchasing power consistent with price stability.

One was the electric bath, which consisted of sitting the patient on an insulated stool with glass legs and connecting the patient to one electrode, usually the positive one, of an electrostatic machine.

So Europeans should not be tempted to think that they are somehow decoupled from America s foibles and woes. Until recently, many Europeans thought they were insulated from the current US housing and mortgage crisis.

The Commission set out conditions for police reform that vested budgetary and legislative authority with the State, insulated the police from political interference and created local policing districts based on operational and technical criteria.

Many builders in northern Canada use a simple 1 3 to 2 3 approach, placing the vapor barrier no further out than 1 3 of the R value of the insulated portion of the wall.

Mortgage originators bore no consequences for their irresponsibility, and even those who engaged in predatory lending or created and marketed securities that were designed to lose did so in ways that insulated them from civil and criminal prosecution.

When Florida s state government goes bankrupt, Florida s banks continue to operate normally, because they are under federal rather than state jurisdiction. When Florida s banks go belly up, state finances are insulated, because the banks are ultimately the responsibility of federal institutions.

In Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975), perhaps the most important of these works, Marilyn Butler argues that Austen was steeped in, not insulated from, the principal moral and political controversies of her time, and espoused a partisan, fundamentally conservative and Christian position in these controversies.

The Committee notes the underlying reasoning for such a restriction is based on the wish to provide the electorate with a limited period of reflection, during which they are insulated from considerations extraneous to the issues under contest in the elections, and that similar restrictions can be found in many jurisdictions.