Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks With Solar Panels Are Here For Your Food
More food, less pollution: US firm has a plan to decarbonize refrigeration units for electric trucks with rooftop solar panels.
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New Thermal Energy Storage System Uses Ice, Not Heat, To Decarbonize Buildings
A new thermal energy storage system leverages icemaking, demand-shifting, renewables, and virtual power plants to decarbonize buildings.
Pioneering Refrigerant Work Delivers Big Gains in Carbon Footprint Reduction
Originally published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When Brian Fricke walks into a supermarket, evidence of his scientific achievement is all around in the refrigerated cases housing the fresh fruits and vegetables. As an Oak Ridge National Laboratory building equipment researcher, Fricke has a long history of making sure that produce … [continued]
This Could Be A Clever Fix For The Biggest Climate Problem
As it happens, the most effective way to fight climate change is to make a better fridge.
Yakhchāls, Āb Anbārs, & Wind Catchers — Passive Cooling & Refrigeration Technologies Of Greater Iran…
If you were indoctrinated into the western public education system anytime over the last few centuries, then you likely learned all about all of the amazing “inventions” that originated in Europe over the last half-millennia. If you later went on to give yourself an actual education, then you learned that much of what you were taught was bunk or propaganda.
Water-Based Air Conditioning Slashes Energy Usage & Uses No Refrigerants
Researchers in Singapore have invented a new air conditioning system that uses no compressor or chemical refrigerants. It is 40% more energy efficient than conventional air conditioners and creates drinking water in the process. Can you say “game changer,” boys and girls?
“Drawdown” — The Definitive Guide To Combating Climate Change
Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, studies 100 ways to reduce or reverse the pace of climate change. Electric cars are #49. The top choices will surprise you.
The Air Conditioning We Use To Cool Us Makes The Planet Hotter
The latest study claims making air conditioning more efficient could keep more emissions out of the atmosphere than adding wind turbines.
Successful Montreal Protocol Move Restricts World HFCs
Delegates from more than 150 countries met in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, last week, to agree on a strategy for diminishing the worldwide use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Historically, people started using these chemicals for refrigeration, air conditioning, and aerosols in response to the scientific finding that their predecessors — chlorofluorocarbons — … [continued]
Explosive US Solar Power Growth & Jobs
It’s no secret to those who work in energy that the solar industry is among the fastest-growing power sectors in this country (often the fastest-growing one), as well as worldwide. And many people don’t realize it, but US solar power growth has a hugely positive impact on employment. In 2013 … [continued]
