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How About 90% More Efficient Air Conditioning?

Photo: Pat Corkery/NREL Evaporative Cooling + Drying with Desiccants = 90% More Efficient A/C As Lloyd and other sensible people keep pointing out , if our buildings and cities were better designed, we would need a lot less air conditioning, and in many cases none at all. That should be goal #1. But because it’s doubtful that’s ubiquitous A/C is going away any time soon, it can’t hurt to make the technology more efficient (keeping buildings cool is using about 5% of the energy used in th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How About 90% More Efficient Air Conditioning?