Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Micah Berggren of R.M. Pena company of Burnt Hills moves bags of insulation to a hopper inside the back of one of the company’s trucks that will feed the injector that blows the loose cellulose into the walls of a home in Albany. Beefing up a house’s insulation is one sure way to cut heating and cooling costs.
