I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity. . . we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.
I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.
If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.
Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.
