Tag: Cooling - Page 2
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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
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Naturally Temperature-Conditioned Traditional Courtyard Homes: Ready for a Renaissance?
Recycled denim insulation and programmable thermostats are all well and good (really good), but people 4,500 years ago managed to keep their homes appropriately warm and cool without high technology -- and without wasting energy. How did they do it?
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Super Smooth: Magnetic Bearings Glide Closer to the Mainstream
Image: New York Times Magnetic repulsion is a force that can make things levitate. This is the principal behind maglev trains and an emerging breed of wind turbine. The advantage of magnetic levitation is the fact that physical friction is cut
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Turn Back Your Clock and Fan This Halloween for Better Energy Savings
Did you hear that right? What does reversing the direction of your ceiling fan have anything to do with time or temperatures? Plus, you can turn your heater down too, but who wants to turn the heater down when
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Designer's Pick for Hot Winter Fashion: Insulation
One of Turkey's most well-known avant-garde designers is cloaking scale models of famous Istanbul buildings in one-of-a-kind
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The Dyson Air Multiplier: A $300 Bladeless Cooling Machine
The Air Multiplier fan from Dyson has no visible blades--just a ring, one-foot across, mounted on a circular base--but out of it flows a strong, turbulence-free cylinder of cooling air. Vacuum magnate Sir James Dyson has done it again, or
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Attic Fan or Insulation?
Dear Pablo: Is it more cost effective to install an attic fan or add additional insulation?When the sun shines on your roof, the dark shingles (assuming that you have a shingled roof) collect the sun's energy and pass it into your
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Arguments Against White Roofs in Northern Cities are Specious
Felicity Barringer writes about white roofs in the New York Times. She picks up on one of my favourite themes, that it is old-school and low-tech:
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Rush on Australian Energy Rebates Create New Green Jobs
The Australian Federal government are billing it is as the" largest-ever energy efficiency rollout" in the country. It's their $4 billion Energy Efficient Homes Package designed to get ceiling insulation into the roofs of 2.9 million Australian homes,
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How to Get a Roadmap for Greening Your Home
Image Source: HUDDear Pablo: You have written about home energy efficiency in the past, but aside from individual technologies like CFLs, what can I do to get the "whole picture" and how do I prioritize my investments? You are correct, there are many
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New Solar Refrigerator Prototype from Chile
Even if each time the words ‘solar refrigerator’ come in the news it sounds like a groundbreaking story, truth is the idea of using heat to create cold is pretty old. A French inventor came up with a concept to do
