Tag: Cooling
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Startup Takes Google Street View Approach to Home Energy Audits
What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.
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How to Make Heat Blocking Curtains for $6
This easy DIY project will save you money and reduce energy consumption by making less work for your air conditioner.
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Nest Adds More Energy Saving Features to Its Smart Thermostat
The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.
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Google's Super-Efficient Belgium Data Center Operates at 95 Degrees F
Google's St. Ghislain, Belgium data center is its most efficient thanks in part to letting the server areas run at temperatures up to 95 degrees.
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Iowa State Spiderman Discovers Super Heat Conducting Properties of Spider Silk
When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.
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From Gnocchi to Toffee Pudding: 8 Gluten-Free Recipes from the Blackbird Bakery Cookbook
Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.
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Clever, Cool Rainforest Office Is a Natural Wind Tunnel
A proposed office uses "climatic architecture" to cool the building by making it into a natural wind tunnel.
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HVAC Failure Alerts Come Before You Know The System Is Down
A new product from Ecobee sends alerts to contractors to fix your HVAC system, sometimes sending them out before the homeowner even knows something went wrong.
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Suffering Dairy Cows in NY Heat Wave Are Too Hot to Produce Milk
Another victim of the heat wave that brought large swaths of the United States to its knees in July: dairy cows in upstate New York. While humans can sweat, or turn up the air conditioning (or find
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Cool Off With Some Watery Eye-Candy
This summer's record-breaking heat seems to be taking a toll on everyone. The weather makes the outdoors practically unbearable, unless you are luck enough to have some method of cooling down. Splash into these photos to daydream your way into cooler wa
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Cool Off With Some Watery Eye-Candy (Slideshow)
This summer's record-breaking heat seems to be taking a toll on everyone. The weather makes the outdoors practically unbearable, unless you are luck enough to have some method of cooling down.
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Zoo Tigers Beat Deathly Heat Wave by Snacking on Bloodsicles
With an unprecedented spike in temperatures breaking records all over the country, humans aren't the only ones feeling the heat. But just as humans have come up with lot of ways to keep cool, tigers at
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Ask Pablo: Is It Better To Live Somewhere Hot And Run The AC Or Somewhere Cold And Crank The Heat?
Image credit: victoriafee, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Air conditioning uses a lot of energy but I am wondering if it is actually better (more sustainable) to live somewhere hot, where you need AC, or somewhere cold, where you need
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What Are the Top States for Energy Efficiency? Did Yours Make the Cut?
The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven't fully tapped into the power of using less power.
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Learning From The Past, Designing For The Future: How They Air Conditioned In India 400 Years Ago
It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat. Caroline Howe of It's Getting Hot in Here explains: In Rajasthan,
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DEC Rules Indian Point Cooling Technologies Will Not Meet NY Water Quality Standards
Obama last week expanded controversial sources of energy such as drilling along the coastlines, but the nuclear power plant near Westchester, NY may be in its final years of operation. On Friday, New York State's Department of
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Whale Power Technology Kicks Big Ass
digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/whale-power-technology-kicks-big-ass.php';While looking at a model of a whale, the appropriately named biology professor Dr. Frank Fish noticed that whale flippers have strange bumps on their leading
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From the Forums: Low Cost Cooling
asuirish121 is looking for some advice: I was wondering about a low cost solution in cooling the house. We have a small house with low ceilings and it holds in heat. We open windows and run fans. Is there
