Reiker Ceiling Fan can both cool and heat the air. The Reiker Ceiling Fan was prepared with the research of US Energy Department Building Technology Center. It is the ceiling fan when you feel hot. It works like a heating device also. It can increase the heat in particular zone.
A Reiker Ceiling fan is also considered to be a Reiker Room Conditioner as it cools and heats also. This Reiker ceiling fan is a modern and technologically improved ceiling fan. It has a transmitter controlled by computer. The temperature is sensed by this transmitter and the heater is turned on and off.
When the room is heated, window glasses may be cool from outside and hence their temperature must be considered to have enough warmth inside atmosphere. One more drawback in previous system was it does not have duct to carry extra heated energy.
Note that a Reiker Ceiling fan does not require the duct to carry heat energy because it has the sensor and it turns off the heater once the expected temperature is achieved. It is an energy saving electrical gadget. It can be used anywhere and everywhere from your home, office, mobile home, garages or basements.
A Reiker Ceiling Fan has four ceramic heaters. They are placed above the fan unit. A room of 20 x 20 x 10 can be heated by using very little nickel within a short time. The basic three wires are used in this ceiling fan. A hot wire, a neutral wire and a ground wire are installed. Reiker Ceiling Fan is installed on 8′ ceilings. There are 5 blades used in this fan. The blades used are wooden blades and they are colored with two colors gold and white. The light is attached to the fan. The light is perfect for the small room, 150 w of power is given to it. 30w light circle is used for this. But this light is mild because of the cover of glass dome.
Also note that the Reiker Ceiling Fan is used with remote control. It is comfortable to operate from where you are sitting. You can control the temperature which is comfortable for you from your sofa or sitting place. Remote control has preset programs so you can control the operation with the easy touch of the button. Remote control is big one and has all functions. It has computerized transmitter which checks the temperature after every three minutes. It puts off or on the heater accordingly. So it saves energy too.
Reiker Ceiling fans are most suitable for small room with 4 walls. Large rooms and rooms with large opening will not be heated with the Reiker ceiling fan. This fan at the roof circulates the hot air in the room and hence the room is warm from top to bottom. There are no cold spots in between. Unlike other heaters who distribute the dry heat after some time Reiker Ceiling Fan delivers comfortable air throughout the room.
Reiker Ceiling Fans are also dual purpose equipment that is a zone heater in winter and cooler fan in summer. They are very convenient for medium size room as both cooler and heater. In winter, the heaters work best when the fan speed is medium.
Ceiling fans first originated in hot, tropical countries with somewhat poor economies. While more wealthy countries have
removed ceiling fans with the advent of air conditioning, the ceiling fan of yesteryear is making an important comeback.
This is no doubt due to the continuing escalating cost of utilities and the expense of maintaining a full house air
conditioning system. People are finally understanding that comfort doesn’t need to mean cold and in the process they’re
able to save significantly on the monthly electric bills. How much savings of course depends on local utility cost and
the amount of time an air conditioning system is in operation. Typically though, a 2-3 dollar per DAY savings is
not unreasonable if a household can use ceiling fans a major part of the day instead of running the air conditioning
system.
Although ceiling fans were in widespread use in the early 1900’s, they gave way to the air conditioning systems of
today. A ceiling fan however is much more than an air movement machine. They’re beautiful and can be ordered to
perfectly fit into any decor or room of your home. Ceiling fans have a central motor with three to five blades attached.
this unit is then mounted to the ceiling. Depending on the height of the ceiling, the unit can be close mounted, with
the motor almost touching the ceiling or on a matching decorator bar to allow the unit to hang down into the room a
little more if the ceiling height is greater than the typical 8 feet. The motor drives the blades of the ceiling fans
which move the air around. Air movement naturally cools people and makes them comfortable without resorting to the
brute force of removing moisture and cooling through a compressor air conditioning unit.
Many people wrongly assume that a ceiling fan is only good in the summer. Actually most fans built today have a reverse
switch installed. This allows the fan to either pull air from the floor area or push air from the ceiling. So in
summer, you would want air movement from low to high but in winter, with hot air rising, you would naturally want the
warmer air at the ceiling to be pushed down to warm the whole room. Ceiling fans also are a great to use anywhere there’s
people or living spaces including bedrooms, living and family rooms and even out on the backyard patio or deck.
So in the end, a ceiling fan can be a great way to add a nice decorating touch to your home while saving big dollars on
that monthly electric bill. It’s not unusual to save the price of the ceiling fan in the first month, just on the
electric bill alone. With your home more open, natural ventilation will make it more pleasant and enjoyable both
inside and out.
Yahoo! have been in talks with Facebook for over a year now and apparently recently got shy at Facebook’s $1 billion asking price but as I will explain here Yahoo! have missed out on an absolute bargain.
Facebook have 18 million users, plenty. However MySpace has 100 million + and sold for a mere $580 million to News Corp’s in 2005. YouTube sold to Google for a reported $1.65 billion in 2006 but it serves over 100 million video’s a day and has over 25 million visitors a month. So what makes Facebook so valuable? It gets relatively huge traffic levels but not on par with YouTube or MySpace. Despite now being available to anyone it began life as an exclusive network for students (you needed an educational email to register) and this is still its primary user group.
So where’s the money?
Currently Facebook displays conventional banner advertising on users’ homepages and selected pages through the site. Adverts are unobtrusive and random in so much as they’re not targeted at any particular user- they’re just served to the entire site on a random basis. Facebook are doing ok out of this arrangement on the basis of the number of page impressions they receive, although in reality they’re keeping advertising at a minimum in order to build up the value of the site for its eventual sale which will almost certainly happen in 2007/8. Smart guys!
The power of information
Register with Facebook and quickly you can find yourself giving away huge volumes of valuable personal information. Think about it… Facebook know your name, they know how old you are (actually your D.O.B which is infinitely more valuable as I’ll go on to explain), they know if you’re male or female, they know your hometown, your postcode if you choose to give it away (although I doubt many users choose this), they know if you’re single, in a relationship (and who with), married, divorced etc, they know your sexual orientation. Ok so you can answer all these questions as honestly, dishonestly or vaguely as you like but from what I’ve seen people happily give accurate information about themselves as it’s their friends and potential friends who are going to see it- and no one else right?
But what else do Facebook know? Well they know where you went to school, where you work, more sinisterly your religious and political views. From this we can start to build up a pretty valuable market profile. As I’m telling Facebook I may as well tell you I’m Male, 22 (born in August), Straight, in a relationship, conservative, atheist from Brighton, England. Went to school at Blatchington Mill Secondary, college at a place called BHASVIC, University at Bournemouth. From this information we can draw further assumptions- I live in Brighton and based on the location of my schools catchment area we could pretty accurately map places in Brighton I know about, visit, and live in (think Google maps API). I’m a straight; conservative from a reasonably wealthy area in full time employment therefore I’m probably white, middle class with a decent disposable income.
So what else? Facebook know what you look like, they probably know what you used to look like a few years ago as well. Probably most significantly they know who your friends are, they know how you know them, they know when you talk to them, what they look like and ultimately they know exactly the same information about them as they know about you- you’re interests, likes and dislikes and your friends tastes as well.
They know your email address, so they know if you use Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail etc. They know your phone number so they could pretty easily work out your phone provider. They have your IP address so they could work out your ISP. They know where you’ve arrived at the site from so they know what search engine you use (enter Yahoo! And Google to the bidding war), what browser you’re on, they know if you’re visually impaired or have learning disabilities from the settings on your browser.
Facebook know when I’m logging in and from where so they know the hours I work, if I’m using the internet at work, the pages I leave Facebook to go to or the pages I come from so they know what other sites I look at. I can set my current status and tell Facebook exactly what I’m doing or feeling right this second.
Ok so you get the picture by now, one last thing though, is your Facebook password the same as your email account password, your internet and telephone banking password, every other password you use in your daily life (because until I wrote this post mine was!) how much more information do you want to give away?
What’s the risk here?
Realistically it’s pretty slim. Facebook are a nice bunch of guys and a great site, I love using it and despite knowing what I know about information security and the like I choose to give away a big chunk of the information I’ve talked about here.
Yahoo! And Facebook
So if Yahoo!, Google or god forbid Microsoft successfully purchase Facebook (as I say I’m reasonably confident this will happen this year) the Orwellian lucid dream proposed by this post becomes a perpetual nightmare. Imagine a company who have made billions and dominated the fastest growing market in the world by developing algorithms which crawl hundreds of millions of pages of random information (the internet) and categorize that information with the ultimate goal of matching it to businesses and selling advertising.
The search algorithm let loose on Facebook
Imagine the search engines let loose on Facebook. An algorithm tuned to pick out profile information (John, born 13.08.84). Map it to keywords in personal interests i.e. football, Manchester United. Plot your location on a map i.e. Brighton, England. Follow links to your closest friends with similar interests i.e. Bob and Dave who live round the corner and serve me an advert something like:
Happy birthday for next week John.
Did you know its Dave’s birthday the week after?
Why not book tickets for Brighton and Hove Albion vs. Manchester united on 12.08.07
Click here to book now and get 3 tickets for the price of 2 (why not ask bob to come along- he supports Brighton and you haven’t spoken in a while).
Book today and we’ll give you a half price limo from your house to the game with trashy-limo’s.com.
Now that’s powerful advertising and it’s just around the corner. If Facebook has 25 million registered users by the time it’s sold, half of whom visit every day that’s a minimum 12.5 million page impressions a day. Serve the advert above at $1 a click (which is far less than its worth based on the current AdWords CPC model) expect a click through rate of up to 10% based on the precise nature of the advertising and that’s $1.2 million minimum a day- almost $½ a billion a year. Grow that user group to 50 million (realistic if Google or Yahoo! can tap into their existing user database) and sell ad space on an affiliate basis say the football tickets at $300 with a 10% affiliate kickback and a 10% conversion rate =$3 per user x 25 million users =$75 million a day or $2737500000 in year 1! OK lets not get carried away people aren’t going to spend $300 every other day but the logics there and so the cash.
Will the audience except it?
Better quality advertising means less advertising- less websites rammed with banners so you can’t find what you’re looking for, less popups, less low quality products. This is the main driving force behind the success of search marketing programs and profile based advertising is already in place with Google’s personalized search returning more targeted AdWords ads than previously possible. If it falls into the hands of Microsoft then people may be more wary but with the image of Google or Yahoo! and Facebook profile information is seen as soft information as the company doesn’t sell you products directly and he service is free. It’s the way the internet is going and I believe it’s where we’ll be in 5 years.
Identity theft
The point I’ve been making tediously through this post is that we should be more careful about what information we give up and to whom. If the internet was a county it would be Nazi Germany and Facebook would be the Gestapo! Social utilities like Facebook are afforded the sort of privileged information fascist governments the world over would and have killed for. We moan about identity cards being introduced in the UK (ironically there’s several Facebook groups dedicated to the cause) but we happily give up personal details to a bunch of college geeks in the states who are ultimately planning on selling our details to the highest bidder (the value of any site is based on the volume, quality and amount of information they have about their traffic- but best of luck to them) possibly to the company who already control the majority of world business systems through the windows platform.
This post is not meant to scare- it’s simply a recognition of the power of new internet technologies, their possibly applications and to pose the question- if your Facebook friends are your real friends shouldn’t they know your birthday? Are Facebook really going to buy you a present?!