air conditioning
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This space-age tech cuts cooling costs — and carbon emissions
The new material's already hard at work cooling ice cream and office buildings, and it's doing it with a lot less electricity than traditional AC.
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Celebrate National Women’s Equality Day by turning down the goddamn A/C
This is your annual reminder that we’re living in a man’s world — and we’re feeling it most at the office.
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How air-conditioning made America — and how it could break us all
AC may feel good but it comes with a host of problems.
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No air-conditioning? No sweat! Here’s how to make your own DIY AC.
Watch our video to learn how to keep cool with little more than a bucket and an intern.
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L.A. heatwave could mean more pollution for communities of color
Three generating stations have been approved to burn diesel as power demand spikes this summer.
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Mayor Bloomberg uses a full-sized room A/C unit to cool his SUV
It really would be interesting to find out what moral calculus goes into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s environmental decisions. It must go something like “I’m a big city mayor, working hard to draw down emissions on a municipal scale. Therefore, it is 100 percent justifiable that in my personal life, I fly regularly to the Bahamas […]
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Energy monitoring device lets dad bust up rager from 500 miles away
If this were a movie, hardware and software developer David Rowe would look like a sitting duck for teen shenanigans — I mean, we don’t know the dude, but we’re pretty sure he’s a dweeby dad (or as close as you can get in Australia). The man describes himself as “kind of a power geek” […]
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Military spends more to air condition tents than NASA's entire budget
Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget. There's an easy fix, says Anderson: Spray tents with polyurethane foam. An existing $95 […]
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How to stay cool for next to nothing
Central AC is for suckers. Why are you cooling every inch of your house, even the dust bunnies under the couch, when the only part that actually needs to be cooled is your body? Having endured, sans air conditioning, countless summers in locations including the deep South and the middle of the gigantic urban heat […]