Stories tagged "cooling"

The nice folks over at Thorn Micro Technologies have developed an awesome new laptop fan - the RSD5. It is a solid state fan (no moving parts!) that uses an electrical current to generate airflow. More airflow, in fact, than standard mechanical fans.

"This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Sure, fans and using windows smartly can help a lot, but also check out these tips for when you really get desperate.

A substantial part of the decrease in power consumption is due to a water cooling system that brings in chilled water from the outside, runs it through copper plates located above individual processors to absorb heat.

Eons ago, before the last Ice Age, the frigid Arctic we know today for its pristine white mantle and exotic animals, was a lush tropical paradise and home to animals long gone extinct.

Ah, summer. It's a time of long days, relaxing evenings, and Country Time Lemonade. For these few, halcyon moments, it's possible to rely on the 15,000 cicadas parked just outside the window to drown out the sounds of your drunken neighbors punching each

Save energy and money by using the outside cold air to cool refrigerators.

A new approach to refrigeration using thin polymer films could make fridges quieter and more energy efficient. Advocates of the method say it will achieve a ten-fold increase of efficiency over conventional cooling.

The roofs of Spanish horticulture hothouses are reflecting so much sunlight that local temperatures have dropped in recent decades

This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.Objection:Temperatures plummeted over the last year (2007-2008). If you look at this data from...