Non-Conforming Bedrooms. A room must conform to specific requirements in order for it to be considered a bedroom or sleeping room. The reason for this law is that the inhabitant must be able to quickly escape in case of fire or another emergency. Why would a homeowner use a non-conforming room as a bedroom?
The main islands of Hawaii, the Society Islands and the Windward islands face into the northern trade winds. They were frequent stops during the trade by ship era of history.
Atop the Ocean, a Sea of Untapped Energy. NORTH SEA European countries have hundreds of wind turbines. Bobbing in the Atlantic, about nine miles from the sandy beaches of the Rockaway peninsula, a yellow buoy clangs and blinks, rising and dropping on the ocean swells. Fixed to the nose of the buoy are two anemometers that spin in the wind.