According to recent projections by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the world should expect a shocking rise in the number of air conditioners. The report estimates that we’ll see 700 million new air conditioners (or other similar cooling units) by...
In the US, we spend less on heating and cooling today than we did two decades ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in the US, average residential energy consumption has remained level during that time. We’ve simply redirected the energy...
In a recent post, we looked at the relative cost of operating different kinds of heating equipment, based on their output. . The coefficient of performance (COP) is a way to look at the efficiency of a heat pump, and it’s based on similar measurements, but the...
At home, you’re the undisputed captain of the thermostat. At work, not so much. Commercial air handling systems are notorious for making everyone universally uncomfortable. If you work in a building with a commercial HVAC system, you know that the calendar...
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