Air conditioners are a major source of greenhouse gases. On Project Drawdown’s 2017 list of over 100 opportunities to reduce human-caused global warming, cleaner tech for refrigeration and ...
New solid-state air conditioners could change the way homes, apartments and office buildings are cooled, eliminating the need for bulky compressor-type air conditioners and help meet the rising demand ...
IN A WARMING world it helps to stay cool. But doing so also threatens the planet. Most air conditioners use refrigerant gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Though these do not deplete Earth’s ...
Consider it the feedback loop from hell: The greenhouse gas emissions air-conditioning releases ensure that we will continue to rely on it. Paige Avila cools off her brother Eric Avila in ...
Last month, as a record heat wave roasted California, statewide energy consumption skyrocketed, forcing grid operators to issue rolling blackouts for the first time in nearly 20 years. The reason the ...
A record-breaking heatwave in France this summer was a reminder that global warming is already with us, and both wealthy and low-income countries must find ways to cope with the heat. A staggering ...
As record-breaking heat waves baked Californians last month, the collective strain of millions of air conditioners forced the state’s grid operators to plunge hundreds of thousands of households into ...
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