Most people assume fans cool air. They don’t. They simply push the existing air around —so if your room is already 90°F, the ...

A new kind of paint might be the key to cooling homes in humid climes like Singapore. Researchers based in the island country ...

A new cement-based paint can cool down the building by sweating off the heat. The cooling paint, named CCP-30, was designed ...

Sunlight’s electric field boosts water evaporation by breaking up molecule clusters at the surface. Hydrogels help form more ...

The analysis published in Energy and Buildings evaluates the performance of a 7 kW system using propane as a refrigerant.

Thermocell generates electricity from latent heat. 04 Aug 2023 In the lab: the experimental thermocell at the University of Tokyo. (Courtesy: Teppei Yamada) A new “thermocell” that generates a voltage ...

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