Air Conditioning News for 03/07/2008




Cabs with no air-conditioning
Are rising fuel prices influencing cabbies to turn the air-conditioning off, and just wind the windows down? It seems like a common phenomenon now (Ive been extensively using taxis this week) to have the wind blowing into your face. ...

Wing vent windows and air conditioning
With the increasing presence of air conditioning in cars, vent windows gradually disappeared. Then as gas prices rose in the 1980s and again in this decade some of us wished we still had those small windows that cooled our cars without ...

Awnings Reduce Homeowners Carbon Footprints - Business Wire (press release)

Business Wire (press release)

Awnings Reduce Homeowners Carbon Footprints
Business Wire (press release), CA - 7 hours ago
EURAwnings are a proven means for reducing heat gain and air conditioning loads typically resulting in a reduced carbon footprint.EUR
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GeekDads@TED: My BlimpBot Foiled by Air Conditioning! - Wired News

GeekDads@TED: My BlimpBot Foiled by Air Conditioning!
Wired News - Mar 1, 2008
All that body heat had raised the temperature of the room, kicking in the air conditioning, which came out of huge ducts right over the stage. .
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Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? - Central Illinois Proud

Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy?
Central Illinois Proud, IL - 17 hours ago
"This new study brings in a whole unexplained factor- the advent of modern air conditioning,EUR Sheldon Schafer, Director of Education for Lakeview Museum .
40 Day Protest Central Illinois Proud
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Behr to supply air-conditioning systems for Tata Nano (Automotive Business Review)
Behr India, a joint venture between the automotive suppliers Behr and the Anand Group, has announced that it will provide air-conditioning systems for the Tata Nano starting in June 2008...

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one. 3. Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag. ...

eCycle, Inc. Announces Low Voltage Air-conditioning for Mobile Platforms (PRWeb)
eCycle announced today plans to offer two air-conditioning units (LVAC) that operate on low voltage (12 - 24VDC) and produce up to 24,000 BTU's. (PRWeb Mar 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/low-voltage/air-condtioning/prweb743784.htm..

eCycle announced today plans to offer two air-conditioning units . - PR Web (press release)

PR Web (press release)

eCycle announced today plans to offer two air-conditioning units .
PR Web (press release), WA - Mar 5, 2008
The LVAC offers users powerful and reliable air-conditioning that operates directly from batteries or in conjunction with an auxiliary power unit (APU). .
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ICC Takes Action on ASHRAE Proposals
International building codes may soon incorporate requirements from a new load calculation standard from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Air Conditioning Contractors of ...

Energy King, Inc. Acquires Gallagher's Heating and Air (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----Energy King, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Gallagher's Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc., a heating and cooling service company located in Los Molinos, California...

DENSO to Establish Joint Venture to Produce Bus Air Conditioning Systems in Jiangsu, China (ThomasNet)
February 25, 2008 KARIYA (Japan) DENSO Corporation and GAC Corporation, a subsidiary of DENSO, have agreed with Yangzhou Jiexin Auto Air-Conditioner Co., Ltd. located in Jiangsu, China to establish a joint venture to produce bus air conditioning systems. The DENSO Group and Yangzhou Jiexin Auto Air-Conditioner will form the new company, Yangzhou Jiexin DENSO Air-Conditioner Co., Ltd. (tentative ...

Firm touts system for turning sun's heat into cool air (vnunet.com)
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Friday 7 March 2008 at 00:00:00 Fresh from inking a distribution deal with German technology giant MAN Ferrostaal, Solitem is committed to scaling up its innovative solar cooling technology The stifling heat often experienced in desert regions may have resulted in soaring energy demand and carbon emissions over the past few decades as air conditioning ...

BlimpBot Foiled by Air Conditioning
All that body heat had raised the temperature of the room, kicking in the air conditioning, which came out of huge ducts right over the stage. Basically I was under a raging waterfall of cold air, and the poor blimp sank right to the ...

Jeep's - Economy Tips for Fuel - carpages

Jeep's - Economy Tips for Fuel
carpages, UK - 7 hours ago
Use Air Conditioning Sparingly. Air Conditioning puts added strain on the engine and uses additional fuel when operating, so limit its use to particularly .
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Fading, tank by tank (The Columbus Dispatch)
Trucker Robert Griffith is on the road three weeks out of four, pulling oversize loads such as crane booms, railroad ties and air-conditioning ducts. One of his biggest worries: how he'll find the money to buy his daughter a prom dress...

EUR Green drive at Geneva Motor Show - R744.com

R744.com

EUR Green drive at Geneva Motor Show
R744.com, Belgium - 3 hours ago
Before its official opening, German manufacturers urged EU legislators to support EUReco-innovationsEUR, including CO 2 air conditioning. .
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Truckers running on empty (The Post and Courier)
Trucker Robert Griffith is on the road three weeks out of four, pulling oversize loads like crane booms, railroad ties and air conditioning ducts. One of his biggest worries: How he'll find the money to buy his daughter a prom dress. As the cost of diesel fuel doubled over the past four ye...

Lonely Rocks
The air conditioning had chilled the room, creating a false sense of reality. His watch read 11:04. EURShit.EUR He had slept in, missed half the day. But, not much had been planned for today, a walk perhaps. Luckily, sleeping late had taken ...

My Slides From FITC Amsterdam Now Available
You can download a PDF of my slides from the AIR Conditioning presentation which includes all the code snippets that can be easily copied and pasted. For those in Amsterdam who will be coming to the AIR tour, dont worry as I will have ...

The Last Doughboy
While architectural describe the buildings EURsense of airinessEUR as EURmagical,EUR employees view working in this heat and air-conditioning free building with the wavy concrete floors and ceilings as a nightmare. ...

eCycle, Inc. Announces Low Voltage Air-conditioning for Mobile Platforms (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
eCycle announced today plans to offer two air-conditioning units (LVAC) that operate on low voltage (12 - 24VDC) and produce up to 24,000 BTU's...

Thirteen air conditioning compressors stolen this weekend (Beaumont Enterprise)
The final one of a trifecta of thefts was reported to police Sunday after five air-conditioning compressor units worth about $12,500 were stolen from Fulbright Family Partnership, a business office in the 5300 block of Washington Boulevard...

Scrap metal dealers help police reduce copper thefts in Nashville (The Tennessean)
Growing numbers of catalytic converters and air conditioning units, coveted for their copper components, are remaining intact and with their owners, thanks to a Metro police partnership with a local industry...

Daylight-saving cost - Salt Lake Tribune

Daylight-saving cost
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 9 hours ago
So much for saving energy. If daylight-saving time causes higher gasoline consumption and increased air-conditioning usage, shouldn't we abandon it altogether?
Daylight saving time study results raise questions The Exponent
Duke Energy questions daylight-saving time study Journal and Courier
Study: Daylight Saving Time Uses More Energy, Not Less FOXNews
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How I built my geothermal home - Portsmouth Herald News

How I built my geothermal home
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - 5 hours ago
The duct system is virtually the same as in any house; it is only the way of heating the air that is different. What about air conditioning? Simple. .
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India: Tata lines up another air conditioner supplier for Nano - Automotive World (subscription)

India: Tata lines up another air conditioner supplier for Nano
Automotive World (subscription), UK - Mar 6, 2008
By Megan Lampinen German supplier Behr has announced that its Indian joint venture with Anand Group, Behr India, will supply air conditioning systems for .
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9 Energy Saving Tips for Spring
Before buying an air conditioning unit or system, find out its energy efficiency ratio (EER). Calculate the EER by dividing the units cooling capacity (BTUs/hour) by its energy requirement (watts). An EER of 10 or more is very good, ...

Firm touts system for turning sun's heat into cool air - Business Green

Firm touts system for turning sun's heat into cool air
Business Green, UK - 6 hours ago
But now a Turkish company called Solitem claims it can tackle air conditioning's huge environmental footprint by harnessing the heat of the sun itself to .
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More NY Times/Fed Stupidity
Few seem to care whether green buildings can be a nightmare for those having to work inside high-rise structures lacking heat or air conditioning. The new Thomas Mayne designed Federal Building at 7th and Mission Streets in San ...



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