New solid-state air conditioners could change the way homes, apartments and office buildings are cooled, eliminating the need ...

Consider it the feedback loop from hell: The greenhouse gas emissions air-conditioning releases ensure that we will continue to rely on it. Paige Avila cools off her brother Eric Avila in ...

The Air-Conditioning System Design Manual, second edition, is the second book in the Professional Series and is published jointly by the association and Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier. It bridges the ...

IN A WARMING world it helps to stay cool. But doing so also threatens the planet. Most air conditioners use refrigerant gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Though these do not deplete Earth’s ...

Building more efficient AC and refrigerators could prevent the equivalent of eight years of global emissions over the next four decades. If we want to stay on track with the Paris Climate Agreement ...

Last month, as a record heat wave roasted California, statewide energy consumption skyrocketed, forcing grid operators to issue rolling blackouts for the first time in nearly 20 years. The reason the ...