Sidewalks with no shadiness. Heat radiates upward from asphalt roadways and downward from walls. Hot exhaust billowing from automobiles, trucks, and buses — all of these city-summer annoyances and moreContinue Reading
Everything on Earth emits heat in the form of invisible infrared rays that rise skyward. At night, in the absence of mercury-raising daylight, this can chill something enough to produceContinue Reading
Developing much more efficient cooling technologies will be critical to keeping the global temperature below 1.5°C within reach and for this the efficiency of cooling systems sold worldwide will haveContinue Reading
Texas is freezing. That’s a problem for ERCOT, the organization that manages the utility grid in much of the state. The record low temperatures led many Texans to plug inContinue Reading
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles want to use ‘Outer Space’ as a cooling system i.e. take advantage of the physics that allows water to turn toContinue Reading
With wildfire smoke high aloft in the atmosphere, the sky was a sickly yellow yesterday, but today a thicker blanket of toxic air is traveling overhead and the color turnedContinue Reading
Diesel generators are the most common means of electricity back-up during power outages but besides being noisy and polluting, they are also the most expensive means of alternative electricity. Such devicesContinue Reading
Approximately 12,000 people die around the world annually due to heatwaves, and as our planet warms, these temperature surges are becoming more intense. The World Health Organization estimates that, by 2050, more than 255,000Continue Reading
