Gender Differences Create Expensive Overcooling in Offices
A Nature.com scientific report provides additional confirmation of something most of us that work in offices or who design office buildings already know – women are always cold and men always hot in the office. The authors analyzed over 38,000 responses from a Center for the Built Environment survey performed by the University of California, […]
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Utilizing Parking Garages to Heat Homes
A company in Switzerland has developed panels that can be installed in underground parking garages that can provide geothermal heat to adjacent homes. Enerdrape has created 1.3 m x 0.7 m (4 ft x 3 ft) thin metal panels that can be installed onto concrete walls in underground parking garages. The panels exchange heat with […]
Cooling from Saltwater
Standing on the beach and feeling the cooling breezes from the ocean is a great way cool off in the summer, but scientists in Saudi Arabia have come up with a new way of providing cooling using the power of saltwater. When certain salts are dissolved into water, they absorb energy and the solution becomes […]
Bedroom Temperature and Ventilation Affect Sleep Quality
OK, that might not be a huge revelation, but a new study published in Science and Technology for the Built Environment says we should pay more attention to both. According to a recent ASHRAE article on the study, the researchers selected average people in their own homes and monitored temperature, indoor air quality via CO2, and […]
