Tag: Air Conditioning
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CoolNYC program helps New Yorkers control air conditioners with smart phones
With CoolNYC's smart AC system, window air conditioner units can be managed efficiently and remotely, right from a smartphone.
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Affordable Solar Powered Air Conditioning in a Neat Little Package is Finally Here
Is this what we've been looking for? A simple, stick-in-the-window super efficient photovoltaic powered air conditioner
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Air Conditioner Vendors Keep Selling "Banned" R-22 Based Equipment, Driving Through Loophole the Size of the Ozone Hole
It's called "dry-shipping", they shouldn't do it and the EPA should ban it
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18 Ways to Beat the Heat
Labor Day once meant the temperature fell -- but for much of the U.S., that's not looking likely for a few more weeks. Don't let the end-of-summer's unprecedented heat get you down!
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More Efficient Solar Powered Air Conditioner Developed in Australia
But we are not quite to the point where we have an affordable, dependable system and may be taking the wrong approach
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Elisabeth Rosenthal on the Cost of Cool
New York Times Environmental writer wonders how we will cope with " one of the world’s most vexing environmental quandaries."
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Beat The Heat: Auto Mechanics Don Kilts to Stay Cool
A Tulsa auto shop embraces Made In America kilts as an alternative to air conditioning.
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Costa Rican Designer Beautifully Re-Invents the Pedestal Fan
Fan(c)Fan is a creation by Marco Gallegos which challenges this product's typical scale and materials.
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Beat The Heat With Air Conditioned Pants
How high technology will help us adapt to a warming climate.
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Happy 110th Birthday, Air Conditioning
In 1902 on this date, Willis Carrier chilled out for the first time. A look at the history and effect of his invention.
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Beat The Heat: 10 Design Tips To Help You Live Without (Or Use Less) Air Conditioning
When you design houses and buildings for air conditioning, it is hard to live without it. Here are some tips for coping.
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The Air Conditioned Nightmare: China and India Like To Be Cool Too.
China installed as many air conditioners last year as America did in the last twenty. Stan Cox discusses the implications
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Beat the Heat: Summer Hours, Summer Routines & Siesta
With the first heatwave of the summer behind us, let's start thinking about how we can adapt ourselves to the heat, rather than just complaining about it or pushing it away via air conditioning.
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The Week In Design, From Air Conditioning to Apple
This isn't easy, looking back at a week of posts and trying to pick the most interesting; Some of the posts create quite the controversy in comments.
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Air Conditioning Is Like Driving; It Is Convenient And Our Society Is Built Around It.
That doesn't mean we can't exercise Some Moderation and talk about changes.
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Air Conditioning is a Symptom of Our Massive Entitlement Complex
Air conditioning is not a human right. We all just think it is.
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Make Your Air Conditioner Green With A Faux Shrub Cover
Nobody will know that you are cool when you hide the evidence with this.
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Is Air Conditioning a Human Right? The New York Times Debates the Question
The Times asks "Is air-conditioning a modern-day right like clean water or the Internet, or an unsustainable luxury that we should give up or ration?"
