The temperatures in the South Pole can be extremely cold. In fact, there are several months during the winter where researchers and scientists who spend their time in the South Pole are unable to leave their research facility for fear of freezing.
(prHWY.com) September 26, 2012 - Seattle, WA -- The temperatures in the South Pole can be extremely cold. In fact, there are several months during the winter where researchers and scientists who spend their time in the South Pole are unable to leave their research facility for fear of freezing. A local Seattle heating and cooling company has been tapped by the research facility in the South Pole to help provide a clean, efficient form of heating.
"We have been asked by the researchers and scientists to help them come up with a way to stay warm during the colder winter weather months", said Dan Narrows of Seattle Runs Hot and Cold. "They have furnaces and heaters but there is a concern that if those things break down they could freeze to death. That is where my help and expertise comes in."
Dan Narrows is working on creating a
variety of gas furnaces that operate not only by gas but can operate on melted snow or other items as a backup. This would allow the scientists and researchers in the South Pole to have an alternative heating source in the event that they run out of gas or something happens down there.
"One winter we almost ran out of gas", explains Terry Green, a researcher stationed in the South Pole. "We thought we were going to freeze if people couldn't get down to us and deliver the supply of gas to us. We were lucky that time but it made us think that we needed a new heating source."
Dan Narrows' creation has been tested in his Seattle heating and cooling company. So far he has extreme success making the machine run off of the water. His new challenge is to create several of these gas furnace items that he can ship down to the South Pole.
"I want to be able to create enough of these items that I can ship a hundred of them down to them before the winter season arrives", said Narrows. "Right now I have about 20 units that I can ship, but I'm not sure I'll be able to create the 80 I need to ship them down there. If I don't I'll just ship what I have to them and hope I can do better next year."
These unique gas furnace items are not only in high demand in the South Pole. Dan Narrows is receiving inquiries from some of the Northern Canadian providences. The public demand for the products make Dan think he'll start marketing them by the end of 2013.
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