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    Keep an Eye on District Heating

    Published 7/18/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: History Lesson, Green, Case Study

    Birdsill Holly (and isn't that a delightful name?) was born in 1820 in upstate New York. He liked to invent things.

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    How to Kill a Boiler

    Published 7/18/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Troubled Heating Systems

    Boilers fail, and whenever they do, someone usually blames the manufacturer. They just don't make them like they used to, right? Heard that one before?

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    Hydronics - A Profitable Non-Growth Business

    Published 6/26/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Educational Opportunities

    Over the years, I've asked friends in this business where the hydronics industry is located. They shake their heads and look confused.

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    It's About Time

    Published 6/16/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating

    Al Levi has been sharing his wisdom about running a business with you in the pages of PM magazine for years, but I knew him as the Ace Troubleshooter.

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    Nine by 12

    Published 6/4/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Purely Personal

    On the afternoon that I was born, and thirty or so miles east of the place where I was born, men were leveling Long Island potato fields and laying out...

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    The Lovely Marianne

    Published 5/5/16 by Erin Holohan Haskell | Categories: Purely Personal

    The photographer asked her not to smile, which gave us even more incentive to try to make Mom laugh. It was a hazy afternoon in Cape May, NJ.

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    Like Family

    Published 5/3/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Case Study

    A long time ago, I was doing a hydronics seminar somewhere in Virginia, around D.C. A young guy came up to me during the first break and introduced himself as...

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    Heating in Prisons

    Published 5/3/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Troubled Heating Systems

    I had gotten back from a road trip and was going over some old issues of Newsday when I spotted his obituary.

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    How to have a boiler replaced (without getting steamed)

    Published 4/24/16 by Dan Holohan | Categories: For Homeowners

    "We haven't had decent heat since that heating contractor left our basement," the woman complained. She was about as angry as any homeowner who had ever called me.

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    Is it too cold outside to run my AC?

    Published 4/8/16 | Categories: For Homeowners

    An interesting question, asked and answered on The Wall:

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