[ST] About the lack of radiant heat in the lobby

[fibrowitch .]

Look guys let me put my safety hat on for a second.  To quote "Crash"  space
heaters are frigging dangerous.

To double quote the CPSC - they are so frigging dangerous it's not funny.
Please take a second or two to read this pamphelt and think about the
issues we would have with the proper use of space heaters.

 http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/463.html

It might be possible to place a few small electric space heaters near the
windows.  However, the way space heaters work is to  heat the area around
them, not just in front of them, but -around- them.  Most of the heat will
be wasted against the windows.  Space heaters need  a safety zone of three
feet.  Called the 'safety cone' it is recommended that nothing burnable,
including human beings be within three feet of a space heater.  I do not
think we have enough space behind the tables for a single space heater.  Now
due to the design of the lobby, it will be impossible to ever make the area
where our tables are set up warm.  The lobby has been designed to use that
space as a dissipater, so cold air from the doors does not enter the main
lobby or the interior atrium.

I was thinking that if we close off all but the one revolving door to people
entering the building, and place a small air barrier, along the wall leading
from the edge of the programing office to the first table. We should be able
to reduce the blasts of cold air that created the worst of the problems last
year.  A few small orange cones and signs should do it.

I know I am one small person standing against the tide of people who want
fuel powered space heaters.  Or just space heaters in general, but please
understand, they are unsafe.   I also wonder if the hotel, or fire marshal
have an opinion on our using space heaters of any kind in that area.    I am
not going to ask that question of either agency, but having been a member of
NFPA, and ASSE longer than Arisia, I just can't let this one go without
saying some thing.

Jan Dumas
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