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U. engineers make energy-saving device LEONARD TAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Homes are not the only things heating up this week, as a team of Rutgers engineers have been creating an energy-saving alternative to traditional indoor heating inside clothing. The team consists of Rajiv Malhotra, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hyun-Jun Hwang, a postdoctoral associate, and Harish Devaraj, a graduate student. They have created this technology in hopes of solving one of the flaws with indoor heating: wasting too much energy. When it is colder, people try to stay warm with either a heater or a central heating system that most homes have, Malhotra said.
“If you think about it, you’re heating everything in the room. You’re heating up the couch, heating up the table, my clothes hanging there, heating up the carpet and all my furniture. These have a thermostat,” he said. “Everything in that entire room is heated to that set temperature according to the thermostat. So we’re wasting a lot of energy doing that.” In other words, the thermostat would not be able to stop the heating process when an individual is warm, but instead until everything else in the room is at that temperature. The focus of the team’s creation is to alleviate such energy waste by only heating up the person. “Estimates are that we waste 40 percent of the energy in building SEE DEVICE ON PAGE 4
The Science and Engineering Resource Center on Busch campus is home to many classrooms for science and engineering classes. The research team’s development of heating patches on clothes could help to reduce energy waste in such buildings. CASEY AMBROSIO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pro-Medicare event held at Rutgers center JAKE MCGOWAN CORRESPONDENT
The New Jersey Universal Healthcare Coalition (NJUHC) held a Medicare for All barnstorm event at Rutgers’ Labor Education Center yesterday. A barnstorm event is a gathering of volunteers who talk about the plan for Medicare for All and organize to knock on doors and make phone calls to the community, according to NJUHC’s website. The goal of the event was to convince Congressman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), who represents New Brunswick in the House of Representatives, to support Medicare for All, according to an event flier. “Today we are all here to crank up the pressure on Congressman Frank Pallone of CD-6. Congressman Pallone has been elevated to a very powerful position. He now chairs one of the most important committees in the house (Energy and Commerce Committee), the committee that will inevitably be dealing with this issue, and we need to urge him to step up,” said Charlie Kratovil, a Rutgers alumnus and a 2018 independent candidate for mayor of New Brunswick.
Pallone already supports universal healthcare, according to his website. He believes, as the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, that all Americans should have access to high-quality, affordable healthcare and advocates for legislation that will help achieve these goals. Kratovil provided opening remarks at the event. “We should understand by now that this is not only a political issue, this is a human rights issue, right here in our countr y. It’s also an economic issue. Right now, we’re paying more and getting less, and we deser ve better,” Kratovil said. Other issues with the American healthcare system were addressed. Current issues include high costs for health insurance and high copays and deductibles for people who do have insurance, said NJUHC member Herb Tarbous. The event coincided with actions taken in Congress, as Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) introduced a Medicare buy-in bill on Wednesday, according to The Hill. “The new measure would allow people to purchase Medicare plans SEE CENTER ON PAGE 4
Congressman Frank Pallone (N.J.-6) is currently the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Pallone has previously stated support for universal healthcare, but the New Jersey Healthcare Coalition is urging him to support Medicare for all. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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