The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
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Fly Ash - The fine ash waste collected from
flue gases from coal burning power plants, smelters, and waste incinerators.
Fly ash can be used as a cement substitute in concrete, thereby reducing
embodied energy of the concrete.
Fossil Fuels - Fuels found in the earths strata
that are derived from the fossilized remains of animal and plant matter
over millions of years. Fossil fuels include oil, natural gas, shale, and
coal. Fossil fuels are considered to be non-renewable since they are consumed
faster than their natural production.
Fritted Glass - A special type of glass that utilizes ceramic-enamel coatings
in a visible pattern (dots, lines, etc.) to control solar heat gain. The
pattern is created by opaque or transparent glass fused to the substrate
glass material under high temperatures. The substrate is heat strengthened
or tempered to prevent breakage due to thermal stresses.
Fuel Cell - An electrochemical device in which hydrogen is
combined with oxygen to produce electricity with heat and water vapor as
by products. Natural gas is often used as the source of hydrogen with air
as the source of oxygen. Since electricity is produced by a chemical reaction
and not by combustion, fuel cells are considered to be green power producers.
Fuel cell technology is quite old, dating back to the early days of the
space program. Commercial use of fuel cells has been sporadic, however,
the use of fuel cells in automobiles and buildings is expected to increase
in the next decade.
