Air conditioners: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is looking to regulate portable air conditioners.
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Air conditioners: The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing new efficiency rules for portable air conditioners.
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And the cleanup is crazy, from locks to the cages on the air-conditioners, not the air-conditioners themselves, but the cages, security cameras.
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Refrigerant 101: Refrigerants enable air conditioners to keep homes cool.
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Single air conditioners rest on narrow balconies outside each unit.
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Most appliances (think air conditioners) work just fine without registration.
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In others, air conditioners seemed to have survived the best.
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We're talking rice cookers, vacuums, dishwashers, and even air conditioners.
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Some air conditioners only have two settings — on and off.
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Air-conditioners can protect people, as well as make them sick.
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Ice-storage air conditioners are a widely available and affordable technology.
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More and more people bought air conditioners, TVs, and so on.
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A heatwave is also boosting demand for air conditioners and refigerators.
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"Smart" air conditioners are still a rarity and charge a premium.
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But this is usually only necessary for really large air conditioners.
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I forgot I had both air conditioners and the dishwasher running.
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HFCs are used in many appliances from air conditioners to refrigerators.
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The committee has already tried selling used cables and air conditioners.
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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a chemical widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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Around the country, fans and air-conditioners flew off store shelves.
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In London, stores are running out of fans and air-conditioners.
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Exhaust from cars and air-conditioners just adds to the swelter.
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Here are our top picks for the best portable air conditioners.
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Window air conditioners also haven't changed appearances much over the years.
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So, air-conditioners may be both a blessing and a curse.
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So, air-conditioners may be both a blessing and a curse.
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The extra window unit air-conditioners: white boxes from brown boxes.
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We've rounded up a number of affordable portable air conditioners and coolers you can add to your shopping cart right now, a few of which even made it into our list of the best portable air conditioners.
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HFCs are emitted from refrigerants in everyday appliances and car air conditioners.
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In the walls a few air-conditioners struggle against the intense heat.
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Through shade and evapotranspiration, trees are "natural air conditioners," says Elizabeth Skrzat.
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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) — chemicals that were widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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"For example, air conditioners are typically produced by established manufacturers," says Britt.
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Also, air-conditioners can blow allergens around the room, too, he says.
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People can't rely on air conditioners to temper the year-round heat.
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Some air conditioners are better insulated for sound so they're much quieter.
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LG has included the same technology in air conditioners and washing machines.
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Now if they'd just fix that damn escalator and those air conditioners.
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Air conditioners also have limits, especially in cities where blackouts can occur.
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And no amount of cheaper air-conditioners will make these workers whole.
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The continent's power supply is overstretched as air-conditioners are cranked up.
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More than 303 percent of United States households now have air-conditioners.
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Is it possible to build air-conditioners that don't need much electricity?
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The technology did end up in air conditioners from other Chinese companies.
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Shoppers queue to buy refrigerators, air-conditioners, car parts and television sets.
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"If they're going to fire all their people, move their plant to Mexico, build air conditioners, and think they're going to sell those air conditioners to the United States, there's going to be a tax," he said in July.
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In 1928, scientists created "safe" new chemicals for refrigerators and air conditioners—CFCs.
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Researchers found a way to hack power grids by remotely manipulating air conditioners.
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Even the proliferation of skyscrapers in the developing world's megacities encourages air-conditioners.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp said affected copper was used in air conditioners produced domestically.
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Just before the lights and air conditioners began to come back on, Gov.
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Instead, you first need to consider how many air conditioners you actually need.
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The Department of Energy is considering new efficiency rules for residential air conditioners.
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These refrigerants substitute for ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in air conditioners and refrigerators.
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Worldwide, 2628 billion air conditioners could be installed by 28503, dwarfing today's numbers.
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The electrical grid will be overwhelmed by an increased need for air conditioners.
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Other delayed energy efficiency rules cover central air conditioners, heat pumps and compressors.
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Some of her neighbors have air-conditioners, but Ms. Ramos can't afford one.
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But in the next few years, the way air-conditioners work could change.
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During the 1990s, 5 percent of urban residents in China owned air-conditioners.
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The Trump administration can decrease global warming by improving refrigerators and air-conditioners.
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This is beneficial because fans use 20 times less energy than air-conditioners.
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Four portable air-conditioners the size of refrigerators blasted air through coiled ducts.
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But here is what is far less likely to be seen: air-conditioners.
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"We effectively created a market for inverter air conditioners with Gree," Mineno said.
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Natural ventilation is the greenest choice, but air-conditioners can be used sustainably.
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Other notable recalls included portable air conditioners and ready-to-eat chicken products.
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Daikin's market share in room air conditioners in India jumped from less than 2 percent in 2010 to 17 percent over eight years, lifting the company to the top total sales spot of air conditioners for commercial buildings and industrial use.
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Although they make life so much better, air conditioners can be quite the eyesore.
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More homes will need air conditioners as summers become filled with deadly heat waves.
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As people turn to their air conditioners, some minor power outages have been reported.
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Ms Dong now makes smartphones, and Mr Lei has a line of air-conditioners.
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Portable air conditioners are a total game changer — and yes, you totally need one.
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Most air conditioners installed before 2010 use refrigerants that deplete the Earth's ozone layer.
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The South African city, long known for its moderate climate, has few air conditioners.
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Air-conditioners blasted and acolytes lined the walls of his office, soberly watching him.
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"It's a disaster," said Ms. Felipe, 1303, who sells air-conditioners for the government.
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This will allow the Energy Department to issue future rules for portable air conditioners.
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Air conditioners will wheeze out, leaving many in homes that will grow dangerously hot.
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Sasha is now a celebrity chef; Marcus works for his dad, repairing air conditioners.
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Thankfully, Walmart is lending a hand by putting numerous air conditioners on sale this week.
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The reverse-cycle air conditioners in homes do not use water and release dry air.
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So Legionnaires' disease is the high profile bug that causes disease from wet air conditioners.
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Second, air-conditioners use so-called "F gases" (such as hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs) as refrigerants.
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Maybe more folks will use air conditioners, or live in buildings with better climate control.
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Why it matters to most of you: Nearly 90% of U.S. homes have air conditioners.
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The son of a bar owner, he got his start in business importing air-conditioners.
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Efficiency: The Department of Energy (DOE) is correcting mistakes in efficiency standards for air conditioners.
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The new GE Appliance air conditioners can also be found on Apple's HomeKit accessories page.
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They put carpets down and installed air-conditioners and called it the Ivy Hills Masjid.
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Bottled water and air-conditioners are common household items, but they come with environmental costs.
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Duties for air conditioners, aluminium products, carpets, furniture and ceramics are set for 60 percent.
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Emissions from air-conditioners also come from generating the electricity they consume, Mr. Thong said.
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But according to Professor Cohen, so do our home refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines.
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That globalization has allowed Americans to afford more food, clothing, TVs, cars, and air-conditioners?
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He also repeatedly referred to the air conditioners made at the plant — except they aren't.
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Most recently, in November, it shipped refrigeration units, air-conditioners, copper piping and other electronics.
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BUILT-IN AIR-CONDITIONERS Don't want to block the view with an unsightly window unit?
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A. Yes, air-conditioners can make some people's noses clog or run, for several reasons.
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The two things that don't go along with my aesthetic are air-conditioners and computers.
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Its commercial and residential solutions businesses supplies products such as air conditioners and refrigeration systems.
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Brian worked in a shipyard and now installs air-conditioners and likes eating odd things.
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Rising incomes are making air conditioners more attainable, while rising temperatures are making them a necessity.
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Others are switching to more efficient air conditioners and refrigerators and installing LED lights, officials say.
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Plus, many people aren't buying the most energy efficient air conditioners available, according to the report.
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If you're trying to beat the heat, there's always air conditioners, ice cream, and ceiling fans.
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Air conditioners blow the same on everybody, though not everybody is comfortable at the same temperature.
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All of the jobs in question also deal with furnaces, though Carrier does make air conditioners.
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He spent another $2000,000 fixing it up so air conditioners could handle the Las Vegas summer.
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Friday's edition of the Federal Register contains new protections for hobbyists, truck drivers, and air conditioners.
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But staff members did not let her install it, despite having air-conditioners in their offices.
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The amendment phases down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases in appliances like air conditioners.
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Carrier is known for its air conditioners, but the plant Trump was standing in makes furnaces.
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As incomes in those countries rise, however, more people are installing air-conditioners in their homes.
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The searing heat has been made worse by a lack of electricity to power air-conditioners.
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Very occasionally we might do a roof; we fix a lot of pools and air conditioners.
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For milder cases, air-conditioners, fans, and other masking devices can be helpful, especially at night.
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He kept air-conditioners running to prevent rot, but the space was unusable for any visitor.
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He spent another $28,2000 fixing it up so air conditioners could handle the Las Vegas summer.
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The tariffs apply to consumer products such as luggage, mattresses, handbags, bicycles, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners.
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Neighbors told CBS 3 they did not hear the gunfire over the droning of their air conditioners.
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Unlike cars, though, air-conditioners have drawn little criticism for their social impact, emissions or energy efficiency.
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The decline, though, will be mitigated by its solid market positions in home appliances and air-conditioners.
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He said he would slap taxes on the company's air conditioners shipped back into the United States.
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CFC-11 is used to produce foam insulation for refrigerators, air conditioners and buildings, among other uses.
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First, there are really two kinds of air conditioners that most people can buy and install themselves.
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The tariffs applied to consumer products such as luggage, mattresses, handbags, bicycles, vacuum cleaners and air conditioners.
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HFCs are organic compounds often used in air conditioners and refrigerators as alternatives to ozone-depleting substances.
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Residents are relying on generators to keep appliances such as air conditioners, medical devices and refrigerators running.
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This deal slashes the use of powerful climate-warming gases in refrigerators, air conditioners and related products.
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Monday's edition of the Federal Register contains new efficiency rules for air conditioners, battery chargers, and dehumidifiers.
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Workers at the facility got more portable air conditioners from a nearby hospital, the facility's timeline says.
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To the extent that Carrier makes air-conditioners and furnaces, you can hit them with the pocketbook.
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When air-conditioners and refrigerators are disposed of or recycled, the refrigerants can escape into the air.
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And, of course, there is the chronic fear of falling air-conditioners, shared by many New Yorkers.
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Many problems with air-conditioners are electrical, so my electrical knowledge has really helped in this job.
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One character denounces "those horrid new-fangled heretical air-conditioners" that start appearing in the nineteen-eighties.
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He said he would slap taxes on the company's air conditioners shipped back to the United States.
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It anticipates their needs with air-conditioners in summer, heaters in winter and roses on Valentine's Day.
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The weather also raised the output from solar power and increased demand for electricity from air conditioners.
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The report filed by Home Depot predicts a rise in demand for air conditioners and ceiling fans.
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The situation is worst during the brutally hot summer months, when air-conditioners often overload the national grid.
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The measure is aimed at conserving power in the hours when air conditioners are typically at peak use.
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Sales in the company's unit that makes Carrier air conditioners and video surveillance systems were up 7 percent.
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Chinese consumers can buy air conditioners, drones, laptops, luggage, hoverboards, and a litany of other things from Xiaomi.
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Home appliances like TVs and air conditioners have had them for decades, which leads to some weird setups.
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Meanwhile its household appliances business could have been capped by weaker seasonal demand for air conditioners, they said.
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But nothing Amazon has marked down comes anywhere close to the brilliance of Thanko's new armpit air conditioners.
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Ollie's sells brand-name overstock items from air conditioners to hair dye, and Five Below caters to teens.
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The sounds of the plane echo throughout the cabin: the loudspeaker, the air conditioners and the whirring motors.
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We could make air conditioners and refrigerators more efficient, so that they use fewer HFCs to begin with.
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Trucks traverse the road, ferrying goods made in southeastern China like air-conditioners, cellphones, costume jewelry and shirts.
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You can also check out our guides to the best window air conditioners and the best electric fans.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced Wednesday regional standards for central air conditioners.
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There were no seats, only a host of unused air-conditioners lying in rows, covered with plastic cases.
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These chemical compounds are responsible for keeping you cool on hot summer days, in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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Read more:Internet-of-things startup Particle went from a failed Kickstarter to powering smart air conditioners and Jacuzzis.
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It's about reducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases used in appliances like air conditioners and fridges.
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The rule would apply to a wide range of appliances, such as refrigerator motors, air conditioners and lightbulbs.
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Europe tightened its regulations in 2011, with stricter laws aimed at phasing out HFCs in car air-conditioners.
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Used in refrigerators and air-conditioners since the 20163s, HFCs are extremely potent contributors to the earth's warming.
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Dan was among those fighting for air-conditioners at Home Depot this week, during Quebec's lethal heat wave.
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Later, the stacks were modernized with fire sprinklers and air-conditioners that struggled to cool down the space.
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Governments should set efficiency standards for air-conditioners and provide incentives for manufacturers and consumers, Dr. Birol said.
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The facilities must have an emergency power plan to make sure air conditioners keep temperatures under 81 degrees.
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Water may have damaged wiring and pipes from stoves, ovens, air-conditioners and other appliances and electronic devices.
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That has boosted the demand for air-conditioners, according to the Bank of Japan (BoJ), the central bank.
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Monday's edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for tobacco farms, portable air conditioners and medical devices.
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Similar gains have been achieved in TVs, computers, dishwashers, air conditioners, lightbulbs, and all sorts of other equipment.
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Yogi, as everyone calls him, is so ascetic and incorruptible that he doesn't use air-conditioners, they say.
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The carbon tax wouldn't affect methane leaks from landfills, or forestry, or agriculture, or hydrofluorocarbons from air conditioners.
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China has long been the world's factory, as a leading supplier of everything from air conditioners to mobile phones.
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The effect in these communities â€" which historically have had no use for air conditioners â€" has been palpable.
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Without drastic improvements in air-conditioners' efficiency, the IEA reckons, they will be burning up 6,000 TWhs by 2050.
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Profit also rose as the company increased production of more costly products such as 4K televisions and air conditioners.
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You're going to make air conditioners in Mexico, you're going to put them across our border with no tax.
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Witnesses have reported finding containers "typically used for refrigerants in refrigerators and air-conditioners," according to Human Rights Watch.
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Solid Appliances Business: We expect LGE to maintain its strong market positions in refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners.
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Some recent travelers, however, suspect that they were exposed to fumes emitted from the air conditioners in their rooms.
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The jail was overcrowded and understaffed, but in some cells investigators found portable saunas, air conditioners and other luxuries.
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That way, they can wait until newer air conditioners and refrigerators come to market and the price comes down.
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Air conditioners are expected to become far more prevalent as consumers grow wealthier in hot climate countries like India.
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The energy labeling requirements would be expanded to apply to certain air conditioners, ceiling fans and electric water heaters.
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Air conditioners are bad for the environment, yet their use is predicted to explode over the next few decades.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on Wednesday announced regional standards for central air conditioners.
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Op-Ed Contributor GASES found in air-conditioners, refrigerators and aerosols are among the biggest threats to our climate.
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Here's what is happening: Efficiency: The Department of Energy is moving forward with new efficiency rules for air conditioners.
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The inclusion of Particle's platform made it significantly to repair and maintain a whole fleet of air conditioners remotely.
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In fact, according to Shiode, there are fully 1 billion portable air conditioners in the world for room cooling.
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It makes sense when you think about everything that's required: many high-intensity bulbs, ventilation, dehumidifiers, and air-conditioners.
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In India, millions of people are on the verge of being able to afford air-conditioners cooled by HFCs.
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A recent global accord will curb hydrofluorocarbons, a chemical common in most air-conditioners that contributes to global warming.
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If left unchecked, by 2050 air-conditioners would use as much electricity as China does for all activities today.
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And because air-conditioners work in part by venting hot air outside, they also make the surrounding neighborhood warmer.
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The good news is that there are many ways to reduce HFC leakage from existing air conditioners and refrigerators.
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Air-conditioners in cars do something similar to the Peruvian billboard — generating water by removing moisture from the air.
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The cost savings of not installing new gas lines or separate furnaces and air conditioners are an added benefit.
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People will have to run air conditioners constantly, and new energy sources will have to be built to power them.
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Question: We've got our portable air conditioners, our oil-free sunscreen, and our skin-baring summer wardrobes (mostly) sorted out.
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Those motors, which power everything from air conditioners, to pool pumps, to heavy machinery, use 40 percent of electricity globally.
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And a big part of that is commercial air conditioners, those giant units you see on malls and university buildings.
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On hot days in Riyadh, air-conditioners account for 70% of electricity demand during peak hours, usually the early evening.
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Indians last year consumed twice as much energy from newly installed air conditioners as they produced from new solar farms.
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At the same time, power plants are grappling with a hotter-than-usual autumn that is keeping air conditioners running.
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If you have a lot of hallways or tall narrow rooms, then consider multiple air conditioners and adjust your calculations.
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The problem with air conditioners isn't just that they suck up lots of energy but that they also emit heat.
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Renesas expects chip demand for autos, machine tools and air conditioners to slip further this year, a company spokesman said.
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The Huis remote can be used to control anything from TVs and Blu-ray players to lights and air conditioners.
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Iraq imports a wide range of goods from Iran, including food, agricultural products, home appliances, air conditioners and car parts.
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In Brisbane, Australia, air conditioners and similar devices routinely shorted out by invading geckos in search of cosy, secure nests.
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The car sold well as Japanese consumers aspired to get the "3 C's" – color TVs, cars and coolers (air conditioners).
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Mr Hamama has recently learned to repair refrigerators and air-conditioners on a course paid for by the British government.
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The use of air conditioners can actually raise temperatures outside, contributing to the phenomenon known as urban heat island effect.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new efficiency rules for air conditioners, airport safety requirements, and voluntary catfish standards.
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Here's what is happening: Efficiency: The Department of Energy is moving forward with new energy conservation standards for air conditioners.
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The Chinese firm is looking to build out its portfolio of products which already includes TVs, smartphones, and air conditioners.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy proposed Friday new energy conservation standards for portable air conditioners.
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When we cool down our indoor environments with air conditioners or other appliances that consume electricity, the outside gets hotter.
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Make sure whoever does the work follows city installation rules designed to prevent air-conditioners from falling out of windows.
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For decades, Sears has built a loyal customer base attracted to its Kenmore brands of stoves, microwaves and air-conditioners.
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Not everyone can fit a unit in a wall or window, but portable air conditioners don't need either to function.
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With countries like China and India installing millions of new air-conditioners, HFC emissions were expected to skyrocket this century.
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By midcentury, the world may use as much electricity powering its air-conditioners as China currently uses for all activities.
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Saudis rely on air-conditioners for much of the year, and the scorching Arabian summer sends demand for power soaring.
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He said the facilities, which have generators, would need to be evacuated if the air-conditioners did not arrive soon.
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SMART AIR-CONDITIONERS If you want to control your window unit with your smartphone, most of your options have glitches.
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Of course, there are a ton of window air conditioners to choose from, and they&aposre not all worth buying.
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Air-conditioners with clean filters can actually reduce sinus problems by keeping allergens out of the air, Dr. Lebowitz said.
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Here's what is happening: Efficiency: The Department of Energy is moving forward with new efficiency rules for portable air conditioners.
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More pleasant for workers, the 'green' setup also saves him money with less need to run lights and air conditioners.
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We brought down the costs of wind and solar power, high-efficiency lighting, air conditioners and appliances through technology innovation.
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Storms can flood equipment, and bright, hot days can cause transformers to overheat and customers to crank up air-conditioners.
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But in cities like Seattle, where heat mortality is expected to increase, only a third of residents have air-conditioners.
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Last year, Kavanaugh wrote a ruling that struck down a rule regulating hydrofluorocarbons used in spray cans and air conditioners.
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Imports typically rise in June as gas demand increases to generate power for air conditioners during the Northern Hemisphere summer.
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That is, until refrigerators, washer-dryers, air-conditioners, and other high-capacity uses for electrical connections became popular and widely available.
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But the company says it believes that will be buoyed in part by increased summer demand for TVs and air conditioners.
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Rhee sees the Bixby button eventually spreading to all kinds of smart-home devices, from TVs to refrigerators to air conditioners.
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I can also verify the air conditioners worked quite well; all the media workrooms were kept at a solid 57 degrees.
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Under the deal, Arcelik obtains the exclusive rights to sell LG branded commercial air conditioners in Turkey, effective from April 2017.
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Trump had threatened to slap taxes on the company's air conditioners made in Mexico and shipped back to the United States.
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Air conditioners ran almost non-stop, causing a 2-day power outage and leaving 49,000 households miserable and in the dark.
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The company, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners, said net sales rose 15.1 percent to $18.04 billion.
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Sears sells big-ticket Kenmore appliances such as refrigerators and air-conditioners only in its Sears, Kmart and Sears Hometown stores.
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The challengers said the DOE was not allowed to delay efficiency rules for ceiling fans, portable air conditioners and other appliances.
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Portable air conditioners are sometimes the only option to get the cool air you need, but they tend to be expensive.
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Chinese products - from mobile phones made by companies such as Xiaomi Corp to televisions and air conditioners - are ubiquitous in India.
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GE Appliance's smart air conditioners, which are the first to support Apple HomeKit in the US, are now available for sale.
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Worldwide energy demand from air conditioners is set to triple by 2050, according to the IEA's "The Future of Cooling" report.
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The number of air conditioners in buildings will hit 5.6 billion by 2050, up from 1.6 billion today, the study said.
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Final passage of the deal could create a new market for their coolants in refrigerators and air-conditioners around the world.
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Summer is typically a high season for electricity demand in China due to increasing use of air conditioners in hot weather.
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These companies are poised to make a profit as consumers buy new appliances, like air conditioners, with new, climate-friendly refrigerants.
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Iraq imports a wide range of goods from Iran including food, agricultural products, home appliances, air conditioners and spare car parts.
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China banned some products like CFC-11, which is used in air conditioners when it joined the Montreal Protocol in 1991.
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And the Kigali talks are focused on a narrow slice of the economy — just the HFCs in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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This I found in a shop in Panama that sold air-conditioners and lint filters and had two guitars for sale.
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Many sidewalks and plazas in the region were ghost towns, and the hum of air-conditioners filled the heavy, ovenlike air.
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Electricity use by households is rising as more Chinese consumers buy air-conditioners and adopt the trappings of middle-class life.
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But he had no connections: His father worked on air-conditioners and heating systems, and his mother was a travel agent.
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Air-conditioners are another Feather category that could have wide appeal, especially since the company's delivery teams will do the installation.
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Your superintendent or other building staff may do the job, although some buildings do not permit staff to handle air-conditioners.
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As incomes grow and more people move to cities, and as global temperatures rise, the world is buying more air-conditioners.
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Described as "richer than the World Bank," Linguère effectively seduces the villagers with consumer goods like air-conditioners, refrigerators and TVs.
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Millions of efficient light bulbs, fans, rice cookers, pressure cookers, refrigerators, air-conditioners and pumps were sold nationwide, reducing power usage.
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He hauled rolls of brown paper from Alabama to Texas, radiator coils for furnaces and air-conditioners from Virginia to Iowa.
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He did not rule out a rebound in consumption ahead, however, noting the peak summer season for air conditioners was approaching.
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Just about every big Chinese appliance maker does business with North Korea, too, shipping refrigerators, air-conditioners, televisions and other electronics.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced new energy conservation standards for portable air conditioners on Tuesday.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As heat becomes more extreme on a warming planet, millions more people are switching on air conditioners.
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And in many industries, like window-mounted air-conditioners, a surplus of Chinese factories has undermined pricing and wiped out profits.
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If the air outside was poor and it was hot, I couldn't get good air without also running my air conditioners.
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"We got up with all the air-conditioners and equipment, and saw that it had an ocean view," Dr. Boxrud recalled.
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Automakers can also get credit for things like improving the efficiency of the air conditioners or by selling more electric vehicles.
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Its digital system allows different controls — such as lighting, air conditioners, and monitoring of the pumps — to be accessed through an iPad.
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Air conditioners may be a double-edged tool, but some way of adapting to the rising heat will have to be found.
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If air conditioners become the only way of dealing with rising temperatures, the same dynamic risks playing out on a global scale.
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There are the Iranian companies that make everything from Baghdad's yellow taxis to the refrigerators and air conditioners that flood street markets.
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Bonnell makes extrusions for the building and construction and automotive markets as well as for specialty applications like refrigerators and air conditioners.
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To keep air conditioners humming, Texas utilities bought electricity from all sources, boosting power prices to their highest in almost seven years.
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Trust us: start thinking about the heat before you're bargaining with strangers trying to buy their air conditioners during a July heatwave.
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At current rates, Saudi Arabia will be using more energy to run air-conditioners in 5003 than it now exports as oil.
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This Mosquito Away feature, as LG calls it, is already included in some of the company's air conditioners, washing machines, and TVs.
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One that makes heating ventilation and air conditioners, a power solutions business that supplies lead acid batteries, and an auto parts business.
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He urged Venezuelans to turn down air conditioners and water heaters, unplug devices and reduce the use of hair and clothes dryers.
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We're over sunburns, leaking air conditioners, and cold showers to help us cool off from an hour-long commute in the heat.
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Yet on this evening, the sign was glowing and the air conditioners below it were on, seemingly mocking the power outages elsewhere.
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While appliances like dishwashers and air conditioners have all gotten more efficient, that can't explain the decrease in household power use yet.
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Shouts of celebration could be heard in parts of Manhattan as power was restored, bringing lights and air conditioners back to life.
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We generally recommend portable air conditioners for the best cooling power, but there's a time and place for an evaporative cooler, too.
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Until then, few details are available to shed light on any potential changes to the energy conservation standards for central air conditioners.
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As temperatures increase, more people turn on air conditioners, which use a lot of electricity and can strain the power system. 5.
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Fans were used to cool homes, and eventually air conditioners, making them both more enticing for humans and less accessible to mosquitoes.
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Scheduling Programs: Air conditioners with the option to program the unit's internal thermostat are a great way to start going more green.
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Some people have air-conditioners, but power cuts—of up to 16 hours a day in southern Iraq—make them nearly useless.
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The protocol phased out substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—coolants in devices ranging from air conditioners to refrigerators—which deplete the ozone.
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He has also proposed tariffs on goods that specific American companies produce in foreign countries, including Carrier air-conditioners and Ford cars.
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Even without the storm, there were waves and wind and air-conditioners and generators and animals moving out there in the dark.
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Kavanaugh authored the ruling that overturned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule on hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), commonly found in air conditioners and refrigerators.
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The most expensive midnight rules were the Energy Department's efficiency standards for central air conditioners ($12.3 billion) and ceiling fans ($4.4 billion).
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The essay touches on the history of air-conditioners, climate change and the alt-surrealist Georges Bataille's musings on energy and consumption.
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"When I look at the next few years to come, air-conditioners are only second to the entire industrial sector," he said.
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For runners, the breathable mesh and cooling towels of today could easily be traded in for shirts with built-in air-conditioners.
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The aerospace divisions are growing more quickly and should be separated from units like the one that makes elevators and air-conditioners.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new nuclear power plant guidelines, efficiency rules for air conditioners, and exemptions for truck drivers.
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Efficiency: The Department of Energy (DOE) is correcting a mistake made in new efficiency rules for central air conditioners and heat pumps.
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It is poor public policy to undermine the competitiveness of firms that make cars and air conditioners by inflating steel costs artificially.
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Chigo sells air-conditioners in 180 countries, including outlets in the United States like Menards, a Midwest chain of home-improvement centers.
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A return to Manhattan would also mean living in a walk-up with small closets, window air-conditioners and no washer-dryer.
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Shares of the maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners rose as much as 21.52 percent to $215.24.
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There are hundreds of millions of residential and commercial air conditioners in the US. Think how often you go into a cooled building.
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It will also continue its industrial air conditioner business and supply room air-conditioners to Havells as a third-party vendor, it added.
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Lower-income people without air conditioners and older people whose bodies can't regulate temperature as well are hit especially hard, the study finds.
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The company, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, said net sales rose 20.5 percent to $18.37 billion.
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Hot weather also helped the rebound, as it drove consumers to buy air conditioners and boosted sales of home appliances by 11.9 percent.
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We know that humans are producing the carbon dioxide at an alarming rate because of the aforementioned cars and air conditioners and burgers.
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Governor Scott issued an emergency order requiring nursing homes to have generators that can keep air conditioners running for up to four days.
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At the time of publication, no portable air conditioners have been certified as Energy Star by the Environmental Protection Agency — so unfortunately, no.
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Most newer air conditioners use refrigerants that don't hurt the ozone layer but do contribute to climate change because they emit greenhouse gases.
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Most air conditioners function by means of hydoflourocarbons (or HFCs), which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions that slowly destroy the Earth's ozone layer.
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But the workers in question don't actually make air conditioners, a mistake Trump and the media have repeatedly made in covering the plant.
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And according to the U.S. Department of Energy, Americans spend a whopping $29 billion a year to power their air conditioners every year.
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LiCon, an app that uses a smartphone's camera to recognize and take control of IoT devices like air conditioners and robot vacuum cleaners.
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Air conditioners were already running on high out west, where a heat wave scorched Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California with triple-digit temperatures.
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Global demand for HFC replacements will likely soar as people in hot-weather countries like India become wealthier and purchase more air conditioners.
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Gree Electric Appliances makes air conditioners, electric fans and other household appliances and its main local competitors include Midea Group and Qingdao Haier.
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The intrigue: Trump administration officials are concerned about costs to consumers who use appliances affected by the policy, including air conditioners and refrigerators.
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Any agreement to limit HFCs across the board would greatly reduce opportunities for people in poorer countries to have access to air-conditioners.
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An international treaty to phase out another powerful heat-trapping gas, the hydrofluorocarbons widely used in air-conditioners, languishes on Mr. Trump's desk.
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Church groups provided food, clothing, diapers, portable air-conditioners and spiritual comfort to those who desperately needed the healing power of fellowship. Looters?
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Some New York City companies, like CoolAir in Queens and Air-Wave in the Bronx, will store your air-conditioners in their warehouses.
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If everyone was adhering to regulations for the chemical, used to make fridges and air conditioners, emissions should have basically dropped to zero.
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Air conditions and heat pumps: The Department of Energy is making changes to its test procedures for central air conditioners and heat pumps.
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"The air conditioners we do have are very big, very bulky, very heavy, and not exactly technologically advanced in any way," Arpino said.
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In addition, parents may need to keep families indoors with air conditioners or furnaces off to avoid letting contaminated air into the home.
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The Iowa man took advantage of job training programs while in custody and now repairs air conditioners at a Veterans Affairs medical facility.
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Around the world, the number of air conditioners is expected to rise to 1.5 billion units by 2030 from 660 million in 2015.
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Educated in mechanical engineering, he became a computer programmer, working with Cognizant, an outsourcing firm, and Lennox, which makes heaters and air-conditioners.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new protections for cactuses, as well as efficiency rules for dehumidifiers, air conditioners and heat pumps.
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Warehouses throughout the United States are packed to the rafters with Chinese goods - ranging from air conditioners and microwaves to footwear and furniture.
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Indianapolis, a city of about 850,6003, has long been known as a manufacturing center where air-conditioners, cars and car parts are made.
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Finally, on October 15, 197 countries agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), an incredibly potent greenhouse gas used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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We're optimistic the new feature will make winters less of a chore, but we won't be tearing out our car's air conditioners anytime soon.
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Plus, the company says it'll eventually expand Bixby not only to other mobile devices, but also to its air conditioners, TVs and other appliances.
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In California, for example, you can get rebates of $50 to $500 for installing energy-efficient refrigerators, air conditioners and heat-pump water heaters.
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Citi says it's seeing a good sign for China's economy: Production of air-conditioners and other home appliances is ramping up in the country.
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Local health workers and international aid groups retrofitted warehouses with power supplies, alarms and switches, sub-80 degree freezers, air conditioners, and so on.
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The company, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, said net sales rose to $19.63 billion from $16.71 billion.
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Correction (September 27th): The original version of this article stated that Honeywell manufactures air-conditioners containing alternatives to HFCs, rather than just these alternatives.
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Whereas there's just one kind of evaporative cooler, portable air conditioners are available in two different exhaust hose configurations: single hose and dual hose.
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On Saturday, an amendment was added that will see the phase-out of another potent greenhouse gas, HFCs, used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy finalized new test procedures for compressors, central air conditioners and heat pumps last month.
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This includes the Transportation Department's rules for vehicle-to-vehicle communications, as well as various efficiency standards for air conditioners, furnaces and power supplies.
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"Do you like the idea of taxing the hell out of those air conditioners?" he asked a couple of Carrier workers in the audience.
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The regulations have affected appliances that are mainstays in tens of millions of homes, like refrigerators and freezers, clothes dryers and room air conditioners.
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The agency warned: If bodies are exposed to electric fans or air-conditioners for too long, it causes bodies to lose water and hypothermia.
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Individuals can do their part by using their refrigerators, air conditioners and other equipment in ways that minimize negative impacts on climate and environment.
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China's shrinking car market has crimped demand for automotive components, Panasonic said, while sales have also dropped for electronic devices used in air conditioners.
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The prices of running water, electricity, automobiles, personal computers, mobile phones, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, stoves, air conditioners, dishwashers, and refrigerators have all plummeted.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new health protections for miners, efficiency rules for air conditioners and sleep apnea rules for truck drivers.
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That number is based on a complicated formula that gives credits for reducing emissions from air-conditioners and selling electric vehicles, among other things.
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Global trade has produced big gains for Americans, like more affordable goods — clothes, computers, even air-conditioners — and led to a more advanced economy.
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Companies could find big markets, for instance by developing low-cost, high-efficiency air conditioners to sell to growing middle classes in tropical countries.
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In time, India will be richer, and perhaps technology will provide more inexpensive solutions, such as cheaper air-conditioners that use alternatives to HFCs.
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But an amendment to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners is holding up a broader vote. Sen.
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Last week, the company's CEO, Greg Hayes, said it was exploring a breakup of its business portfolio, including jet engines, elevators and air conditioners.
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Some of Amazon's warehouses famously failed to install air-conditioners in the past until a local news investigation found workers had been falling ill.
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But an amendment to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners is holding up a broader vote. Sen.
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Fluorocarbons are most commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners, and fine particles like black carbon soot are a product of smokestacks and chimneys.
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Sales of new cars accelerated in April-June from the previous quarter, and GDP data showed higher purchases of appliances, such as air conditioners.
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Rooftops are covered with solar panels or gardens that collect rainwater for reuse, while ground water is used to cool buildings through air-conditioners.
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The day before, the crane being used to install generators and air-conditioners tipped over as its crew worked to secure it amid high winds.
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Since our air conditioners do so much for us, we thought it'd be nice to return the favor...by giving them a much needed makeover.
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That came after utilities curbed buying as weather cooled earlier than normal in northern China, prompting households and businesses to turn off their air conditioners.
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To keep those air conditioners humming, Texas utilities bought electricity from all sources, keeping power prices near seven-year highs hit earlier in the week.
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Despite our love for air-conditioners and our two-maids-per-child compulsions, we know about climate change: We are trying to ban plastic bags.
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Last, more could be done to design offices, malls and even cities so they do not need as many air-conditioners in the first place.
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Cramer suspects that traders are closing out their short positions in anticipation of a hot summer, when people will be turning on their air conditioners.
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He has claimed credit for strong-arming Carrier, a maker of air-conditioners, into keeping 1,000 jobs in Indiana, rather than sending them to Mexico.
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To keep air conditioners running, Texas utilities are buying electricity from all sources, keeping power prices near seven-year highs hit earlier in the week.
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To keep air conditioners humming, Texas utilities bought electricity from all sources, boosting power prices to their highest since the winter heating season in January.
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Total comparable same store sales, excluding petroleum, rose 1.6 percent, boosted by demand for air conditioners, gardening products and footwear during the onset of summer.
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Rio de Janeiro (CNN)With a record number of condoms allocated and air-conditioners in every bedroom, Rio's athletes village starts welcoming Olympians on Sunday.
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They are coursing with deadly electricity, yet, they must be placed everywhere, so that we all can power our air conditioners and charge our phones.
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Its number one ranked solution -- managing the release of HFC greenhouse gases from fridges and air conditioners -- could reduce atmospheric CO2 by 90 billion tons.
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The environmentally-friendly refrigerant it relies on, Dupont R-134a, is the same coolant used for mobile air conditioners attached to motorhomes and other vehicles.
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Now that you have a basic idea of the kind of air conditioners available let's talk about how to choose the right one for you.
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Sales also bounced from a 1.3 percent decline seen in February, thanks to stronger demand for household electronics such as air conditioners and vacuum cleaners.
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Non-residential consumers will be asked to turn off landscape lighting and cap electricity use for air conditioners during hours when electrical supply is squeezed.
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Gas demand spikes in winter due to heating of homes and businesses, while power demand does so in summer when customers crank up air conditioners.
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This will allow the utility to more cheaply meet the highest levels of demand — often on hot days when homes and businesses run air conditioners.
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Amidst all the hand-wringing, there is one significant step that we can act on today: The elimination of hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants in these air-conditioners.
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Shares of the maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners were up about 21.69 percent at $214.98 in premarket trading.
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Cosme Vera, a farmer who rents 22015 acres to Iberdrola for $252,22008 a month, has renovated his farmhouse and bought air-conditioners for the bedrooms.
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It has manufacturing partnerships with local producers in India, Japan and China to produce an alternative refrigerant used in automobile air conditioners called HFO-1234yf.
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The government said it may pay to help state schools install air conditioners and suggested extending summer vacations, which started this week for many students.
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At issue in the Thursday case are rules setting energy efficiency standards for portable air conditioners, air compressors, commercial packaged boilers and uninterruptible power supplies.
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And as more air-conditioners spin up — you guessed it — they cause more warming, both through the energy they consume and the gases they release.
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Last year, more than 197 countries agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons — a potent greenhouse gas found in air-conditioners and refrigerators — under the Montreal Protocol.
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I'm referring to the current UN talks in Rwanda to tackle hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), an extremely potent greenhouse gas found in air conditioners, refrigerators, and foams.
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The ultimate nightmare scenario during a heat wave is a widespread blackout that leaves millions of people without electricity for their fans or air-conditioners.
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Built-in air-conditioners, also known as through-wall units, are mounted in a metal sleeve that goes through an opening cut in the wall.
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Of course, the mightiest air-conditioners could only do so much to overcome the effects of the high pressure ridge that settled over the Northwest.
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Data showed spending on items such as durable goods, including air conditioners, remained weak, but picked up on items such as foods and personal computers.
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The residents said that temperatures could soar to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, but the electricity supply was too weak to run fans or air-conditioners.
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He further advised that people use high quality air conditioners with filters or standalone air purifiers if possible, and avoid exercising either indoors or outdoors.
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As we drove toward the Libyan border, trucks loaded with carpets, air-conditioners, and toaster ovens crept up the coast road in the other direction.
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California has also imposed the nation's strongest standard for limiting methane emissions from landfills and strict regulations on refrigerants in air-conditioners and consumer products.
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As a precaution, emergency officials initially ordered local residents to remain in their homes with the windows closed and to shut off their air conditioners.
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Teachers at the Hope School, a special-needs public school in San Juan, were able to raise $60,000 for air-conditioners for the stricken building.
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During the hot southern summers, when air conditioners are cranked up, those plants would dip into the Aliso Canyon reservoir to keep their generators spinning.
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A sleeping cot was squeezed into the command post, where temperatures became stifling when the building's air conditioners shut off as usual on Saturdays and Sundays.
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There's also an issue because of the moisture: Some of the older air-conditioners had condensation pans, where the water would just collect, and sit there.
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This automatic standby generator is ready to go as soon as it senses an outage and can power 16 circuits or five air conditioners at once.
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On this basis, Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, a think-tank, calculates that improving air-conditioners could do more than anything else to reduce greenhouse gases.
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In 2017, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, a research centre, calculated the extra carbon emissions that could be saved if air-conditioners were better.
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I'm going to tell them right now, I am going to get consensus from Congress and we're going to tax you when those air conditioners come.
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It will be powered exclusively by renewable energy, McEntegart said, adding that the cold climate could help to cool servers instead of relying on air conditioners.
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And there are the halocarbons such as the CFCs and HFCs in our air conditioners and refrigerators that also trap heat when leaked into the atmosphere.
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As poorer nations have seen incomes rise, people have been able to purchase refrigerators and air-conditioners for the first time, compounding an already difficult problem.
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The combined effects of heat-trapping asphalt, air conditioners pumping hot air, and cars spewing exhaust create what are known as "urban heat islands" or UHIs.
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When President Donald Trump threatens to redo trade deals and slap steep taxes on imports, he focuses largely on car companies and makers of air conditioners.
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Step Three: Figure Out How Many Air Conditioners You NeedOkay, you've done your measurements, plugged them into the calculator, and know how many BTUs you need.
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Landlords refused to upgrade and tenants, with few affordable options in the city, added amenities such as air-conditioners while lining up outside the common toilets.
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It is hard to be a successful producer of automobiles or air conditioners, for instance, if US policies give overseas competitors a built-in cost advantage.
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Air-conditioners can also help decrease the humidity in the air, which can be helpful for people who have asthma or mold allergies, Dr. Bassett says.
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In 2006, the state-funded Korean Consumer Protection Board listed "asphyxiation from electric fans and air-conditioners" as one of the top five recurring summer accidents.
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This creates a kind of self-reinforcing cycle, where the heat from air conditioners is released outside, warming temperatures and furthering the need for air conditioning.
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However, power demand peaks during summer as residents turn up air conditioners in the desert kingdom where temperatures can reach as high as 50 degrees Celsius.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is moving forward with new test procedures for central air conditioners as well as heat pumps.
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Create market incentives to replace refrigerants, HFCs, by 28500 in air conditioners and other cooling equipment, with climate neutral refrigerants, while also doubling their energy efficiencies.
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Both the people who think climate change is a world-ending threat and the people who like keeping their air conditioners and lights on would win.
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You can connect any device to the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini, from lamps to fans and air conditioners, to make it a smart device.
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The amendment, approved by all world leaders in October 2016, phases down refrigerants used in air conditioners that contain powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.
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A landmark global deal to cut the use of a chemical found in air-conditioners and refrigerators could have a profound effect in slowing climate change.
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Electricity rates are so discounted in the Persian Gulf states that some residents do not bother to turn down their air-conditioners while away on vacation.
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If temperatures are warmer than normal, as they were last year, the ISO said supply margins will tighten significantly as consumers crank up their air conditioners.
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Hundreds of thousands of homes were sporadically left without power in Victoria and South Australia amid surging demand as residents turned up air conditioners and fans.
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From lighting systems that detect if a room is occupied to smart air conditioners, the buildings of today are increasingly turning to innovative pieces of kit.
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Home appliance stores have been mobbed in recent days, with residents trying to buy air-conditioners, only to discover that all the units are sold out.
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Little outlays — laundromat, bottled water, air-conditioners — had begun to add up, and Craig had been forced to take monthlong trucking routes on the East Coast.
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Kenmore, which has a loyal following and last year started to sell air-conditioners, refrigerators and other products on Amazon, could flourish as an independent company.
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California, New York, Maryland and Connecticut said they would craft new regulations to curtail hydrofluorocarbons, the highly potent greenhouse gasses used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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Still, there might be some room for comfort for people living in areas where hot and humid summers are the norm, but air conditioners are not.
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In the South, people are figuring out that solar panels can put out cheap power just about the time they are cranking up their air-conditioners.
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In addition, the Trump plan would also give automakers credits for using cleaner technologies, like more modern refrigerants in air-conditioners, something that most already do.
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As far away as Singapore and the Thai islands, people covered their faces with masks and prayed that their air-conditioners could filter out the soot.
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Demand response has played an increasingly important role in the market: When prices spiked, demand dropped, helping the system keep lights on and air conditioners humming.
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By 2500, the I.E.A. has projected, global energy use from air-conditioners will triple, requiring as much electricity as all of China and India use now.
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Manufacturers of computers, air-conditioners, medical devices and other products are canceling their contracts with American firms and turning to European and Japanese products, they said.
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United Technologies – The maker of Pratt & Whitney engines and Carrier air conditioners reported adjusted quarterly profit of $22.25 per share, seven cents a share above estimates.
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You might want to review the best ways to cool your space, our recommendations of the best air-conditioners and how to start biking to work.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for accessing the death master file, efficiency rules for air conditioners and funding requirements for large banks.
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They totally remove the hum of the office air conditioners at BI, which are surprisingly loud, at least after using the noise cancelling on the QC35II.
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But the workers in question don't actually make air conditioners, a mistake Trump and the media have repeatedly made in covering the plant: http://bit.ly/2fXiAbj.
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While spending on housing renovations fell, consumers spent more on beverages, air conditioners and eat-outs due partly to hot weather during the month, the data showed.
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Even after cooling them under the air conditioners of their cars, Brown could only make one of the net guns lamely disgorge its net a few feet.
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Duties on cosmetics, dairy products, air conditioners, fans, refrigerators, microwave ovens, electric shavers, perfumes and a host other goods were increased to 60 percent from 40 percent.
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The stifling summer of 2018 in the northern hemisphere has been a banner season for air-conditioners and a reminder of how they have changed the world.
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At current growth rates, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which advises national governments, 1bn air-conditioners will be installed globally in the next ten years.
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Despite that support, the amendment is facing a skeptical audience in the Trump administration due to concerns about consumer costs when maintaining and purchasing new air conditioners.
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I have become CEO of Danby Appliances, a $400-million-in-sales manufacturer and distributor of bar fridges, microwaves, wine coolers, air conditioners and other small appliances.
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It was only after signing the lease that officials realized the complex, which formerly housed workers in nearby oil fields, had mold and non-functioning air-conditioners.
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This week's meeting in Kigali, Rwanda ended with an agreement to cut the worldwide use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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But Daikin Industries Ltd, the world's biggest maker of air conditioners with a market value of $37 billion, is taking a more unusual route to AI expertise.
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An air purifier isn't quite as much of a staple as other home appliances (like air conditioners or even humidifiers), so why should you even consider one?
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The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing new efficiency rules for portable air conditioners that are expected to save consumers billions of dollars on their energy bills.
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The impact of using air conditioners and electric fans is already significant, accounting for around one-fifth of the electricity used in buildings globally, the IEA said.
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In New York, in the summer, you will always find a contingent of people nervous about air-conditioners falling out of high-rise windows and killing them.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced Tuesday new test procedures that will apply to central air conditioners as well as heat pumps.
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The problem: Vapor compression cooling systems used in air conditioners, cars and refrigerators are too large and bulky for much smaller applications like keeping smartphone batteries cool.
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In post-war buildings, "even the use of air conditioners and fans is not satisfying people from a thermal comfort perspective," Touchie said in a phone interview.
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One of my first meetings with Al Gore was over chlorofluorocarbons and the emissions into the atmosphere, and they were from refrigerators and air conditioners, I think.
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For decades, a class of chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were used widely in air-conditioners and refrigerators, as well as in aerosol sprays and cleaning products.
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Most of the windows were eventually replaced, but since there was no central air -conditioning in the Flatiron, individual air-conditioners continued to poke out of them.
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As my colleague Kendra Pierre-Louis wrote this year, experts say governments should also set efficiency standards for air-conditioners and provide incentives for manufacturers and buyers.
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Many air-conditioners on sale in India today use twice as much electricity to provide the same amount of cooling as more efficient units, Dr. Davis said.
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I'm more drawn to the thousands of "songs" in Spotify's Sleep Sound Library, particularly "full gutters" and "office air-conditioners," and I have a white noise machine.
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They are meant to be kept cool and dry by two air-conditioners, but one air-conditioner is broken and there is no money to fix it.
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The Energy Department announced Friday it is making a final determination that portable air conditioners are a covered product, because it is used by the average household.
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And air-conditioners pose their own problems both as contributors to climate change through energy consumption and because they pump warm air outside, further increasing urban temperatures.
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The Paris Agreement also helped to unlock U.N. accords this year to limit emissions from airlines and from powerful greenhouse gases used in air conditioners and refrigerators.
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Air conditioners use refrigerants, and some of the most common types — hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs — are powerful greenhouse gases, with thousands of times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.
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International initiatives are set to phase down the worst offenders, but air conditioners contribute to climate change in a second way: they consume a tremendous amount of electricity.
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The system powers nearly his whole home: "The only things I don't run are the big air conditioners and the water heating system," he told me over Skype.
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In Texas, electric demand is expected to reach record levels on Thursday as consumers crank up their air conditioners, according to data from the state's power grid operator.
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The partnership plans an investment of some 200 million lira ($57 million) in commercial air conditioners and new technology, Arcelik Turkiye CEO Can Dincer said in a statement.
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In my neighborhood, it could be raining fire outside, but the air-conditioners will keep our living rooms at a steady 18 degrees Celsius (about 64 degrees Fahrenheit).
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In the next ten years, as many air-conditioners will be installed around the world as were put in between 1902 (when air-conditioning was invented) and 2005.
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To keep those air conditioners humming, Texas utilities are buying electricity from all sources, which boosted power prices to a near seven-year high earlier in the week.
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Europe accounts for only 6% of the global share of air conditioners, compared with the U.S. at 23%, according to a 2018 report by the International Energy Agency.
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And after that overnight hospital stay, he and his mom installed air conditioners in each of their rooms to cut the chances he would have to go back.
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The company also said it sold 500 million yuan in air conditioners over a 30-minute period, and 100 million yuan in televisions over a one-minute period.
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Qatari gas is crucial to generating the electricity powering the air conditioners that keep Abu Dhabi and Dubai livable in smothering heat that can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
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United Tech, which makes Pratt & Whitney jet engines, had said last month it was exploring a breakup of its business portfolio, including jet engines, elevators and air conditioners.
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In the fusty air inside, amid snaking cables and extras dressed like squares from 1961, portable air-conditioners fought a mighty and futile battle with Atlanta's wilting heat.
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Mr. Obama and Mr. Modi also announced a separate agreement to cut the use of hydrofluorocarbons, potent planet-warming chemicals produced by coolants in refrigerators and air-conditioners.
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Midea — which manufacturers consumer electronics like air-conditioners and rice cookers — holds 13.5 percent of Kuka shares and will become the largest shareholder, once it acquires Voith's stake.
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During the period, abnormally warm temps hit Western Europe, leaving typically moderately warm cities blazing hot, creating a run on air conditioners and even fans in some cities.
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In a 22008 Chicago Tribune piece, Walter Cherry noted that his company was supplying Ford and other companies with switches for air conditioners, power locks, and power windows.
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Sweeter still, domestic companies have long been working on next-generation replacements for HFCs and stand to benefit from the exploding global demand for air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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"[These days] there are all these venues with air conditioners and stuff, which is great," he continued, referring to newer, more refined Brooklyn venues like Output and Verboten.
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For much of the 20th century, we relied on chemicals known as CFCs (short for chlorofluorocarbons, also known as Freon) as coolants in our air conditioners and refrigerators.
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As Chinese people have become richer, buying cars, bigger homes, refrigerators and air-conditioners, their emissions have risen, although their emission per capita remains much lower than Americans'.
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Among his firm's biggest clients are Gree Electric, the largest manufacturer of air conditioners in the world, and Sogou, one of the best-known search engines in China.
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The dehumidifiers were on, the air-conditioners in the windows were on, and even the ozone generator, which the girl felt sure was slowly poisoning her, was on.
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The problem last year was compounded by power cuts which left people unable to cool themselves with fans and air conditioners, particularly affecting those unable to afford generators.
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Equipped with some Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia cards, as well as two air conditioners to keep the operation cool, Alberto said he makes about $3,300 a month.
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If you walk into the average Liberian's house during the day, you will not find any lights glowing, let alone air-conditioners, fans, televisions, radios or refrigerators running.
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Officials are also investing in making the power grid more reliable to prevent cascading infrastructure failures as thousands of air conditioners switch on and strain the electricity networks.
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DJ: Use EPA-registered insect repellents, wear long sleeves, treat clothing with permethrin (an insecticide), and stay in places with air conditioners and screens on the windows and doors.
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Airxcel makes air conditioners, heat pumps, cooking appliances, furnaces, powered vents and water heaters for use in recreation vehicles, schools, multi-family housing, telecommunication enclosures and other industrial applications.
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From falling air conditioners to falling down subway stairs, the city presents a few challenges, and New Yorkers are increasingly aware and terrified of every single one of them.
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But for big ticket home appliances such as air-conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines, positive signs are emerging, analysts at the U.S. bank said in a report dated Thursday.
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And HFC use is set to soar in China, India, and other developing countries, which are on pace to install some 700 million air conditioners in the next decade.
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Churu has issued a heat wave advisory and government hospitals have prepared emergency wards with extra air conditioners, coolers and medicines, said Ramratan Sonkariya, additional district magistrate for Churu.
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In addition to selling air conditioners to U.S. homeowners, United Technologies also sells billions in jet engines, helicopter components and many other goods and services to the federal government.
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Berkeley National Laboratory reports that more climate-friendly refrigerants coupled with more energy-efficient air conditioners could save the equivalent of 22019 billion of carbon dioxide cumulatively by 2050.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is carrying out national inspections on foam industries to crack down on illegal production of ozone depleting substances (ODS) widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) said Monday it is postponing five efficiency rules, including test procedures for walk-in coolers and freezers, central air conditioners, heat pumps and compressors.
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Suning got its humble start in 1990 distributing air conditioners, morphed into a retail giant both online and offline and diversified into in real estate, financial services and media.
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That Weave is already inside such a wide range of products is impressive, too — Apple isn't yet trying to work with core appliances like ovens, fridges, and air conditioners.
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If that's not enough molten misery, wildfires are burning across California, which is also dealing with buckling roads and power outages caused by the increased use of air conditioners.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued new test procedures for portable air conditioners in June, but is now fixing minor errors in the rule.
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Now, not only are our phones smart, our entire house has a mind of its own, with air conditioners cooling, music playing and lights turning on to greet you.
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Officials from the government and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) don't even know how many people have power for lights, air conditioners, refrigerators and other basic necessities.
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They put up with an assortment of features common to old buildings, including squeaky floors and — the worst for Mr. Zoglin — a draft from the windows holding air-conditioners.
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The same technology, which was certified as effective by an independent laboratory near Chennai, India, has been used by LG in air conditioners and washing machines, the company said.
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The Kigali amendment of the 30-year-old Montreal Protocol, a legally binding environmental treaty, calls on the world to phase down refrigerants used in appliances like air conditioners.
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Consisting of wind turbines and air conditioners atop layers of concrete bricks, the sculptures ("Opaque Grey – Humbled #1" and "#2," both 2016) channel contemporary estrangement in their bifurcated aesthetics.
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I've dated more men than I feel comfortable admitting who've lived in New York for years without air conditioners, even though they can afford and would benefit from one.
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Huang notes that we're now able to apply computing to things where before it made no sense to do so, including to air conditioners and other relatively 'dumb' objects.
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Snippets of audio, about 10 seconds each, will be collected during random intervals over the course of about a year to capture seasonal notes, like air-conditioners and snowplows.
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Trees are the planet's OG air conditioners, and with 21.3% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from deforestation, your gift of One Tree Planted is not only appreciated, it's necessary.
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That is why both Dr. Davis and Dr. Birol say the solution lies not in convincing countries to forgo air-conditioners, but in making air-conditioning more energy efficient.
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The White House is raising objections to a bipartisan Senate measure that would aim to phase down the use of heat-trapping chemicals in air conditioners and refrigerators. Sens.
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India, after all, has one of the hottest climates on Earth, and as it gets richer, more and more people would like to install air conditioners in their homes.
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Visiting journalists can find respite in a handful of dark, cell-like rooms facing away from the river and the scorching afternoon sun and equipped with faltering air-conditioners.
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ATLANTA — For just a few moments on Thursday afternoon, in a makeshift room of microphones and klieg lights and portable air-conditioners, the baseball men's voices seemed to catch.
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Overall much less snow and more rain is falling, Romshoo said, and "earlier people wouldn't use fans in the region during summer but now people use air conditioners here".
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Yet in the U.S., window air conditioners aren't that common except in major cities with older buildings that aren't equipped with central air like the rest of the country.
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The brochures of district council candidates typically show neighborhood concerns they pledge to fix: trash-filled alleys, air-conditioners dripping on sidewalks and streets lined with illegally parked cars.
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The prospect of tariffs from a trade war between the United States and China adds another headache: Daikin assembles air conditioners in the U.S. using some Chinese-made parts.
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"As soon as we would open the pool and turn on the air conditioners in May … our electric bills would run close to $2015, sometimes more," said Lisa Chretien.
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The players had to negotiate trying conditions in Sydney, which saw temperatures reach 44 degrees Celsius, despite the new canopy roof over the Ken Rosewall Arena and air conditioners.
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Air conditioners could helpWhen greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels enter the atmosphere, they trap more heat on the planet, causing Earth&aposs surface temperatures to rise.
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Although the air has no signs of asbestos, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said carcinogen-tainted debris could have been thrown stories high, contaminating air conditioners and buildings.
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The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued new test procedures for central air conditioners and heat pumps in June, but is now fixing editorial errors.
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We'll be forced to buy their more expensive air conditioners because they're supposedly good for the planet, but the mainstream numbers show an undetectably low mitigation of global warming.
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If even half of them get cars, have air-conditioners and eat high-protein diets like Americans now do, we will devour and burn up the planet beyond recognition.
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The South Korean artist has a history of making unexpected and innovative installations — from Sol Lewitt-inspired chandeliers to a sculptural arrangement of wind turbines, air conditioners, and concrete bricks.
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But just as water heaters don't need to heat water during the hours it's being used, commercial air conditioners don't need to make cold during the hours people use it.
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The Department of Energy violated the law by indefinitely putting on hold four rules requiring air conditioners, boilers, and other products to use less energy, a federal judge recently ruled.
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Mining output increased 1.2 percent last month, while utilities output moved up 0.7 percent as warmer-than-usual temperatures led people to use their air conditioners more, the Fed said.
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In 2005 she pioneered a widely-adopted program to encourage male office workers to ditch their suit jackets in summer, allowing office air conditioners to be set at higher temperatures.
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The United States and the European Union are among those that already have laws phasing out HFCs, with manufacturers using less damaging chemicals in fridges and air conditioners and aerosols.
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Consumption was recovering from a slump seen earlier this year as households spent bonuses on pricier items like automobiles and air conditioners, a government official told reporters in a briefing.
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India, after all, has one of the hottest climates on Earth, and as the country gets richer, more and more people would like to install air conditioners in their homes.
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Special tax breaks and high trade barriers have turned this remote outpost into the source of 90 percent of the air conditioners, cell phones, TVs and microwaves sold in Argentina.
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For this process to be carbon neutral, though, all those souped-up air conditioners would need to be powered with renewables, because burning the synthetic fuel would also produce emissions.
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But there's something we need to get off our chests: beneath Amazon's calm surface of MacBooks, KitchenAid mixers, and eco-friendly air conditioners there lurks a strange — yet wonderful — underbelly.
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The maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners, forecast 2018 adjusted earnings per share in a range of $6.95-7.15, up from $6.85-$7.10 previously.
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About 75% of all electricity produced in the UAE is sucked up by buildings, mainly to fuel air-conditioners that keep locals fresh during the scorching summer months, Stewart said.
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Officials must in the coming years decide whether to write new energy efficiency rules for a wide range of products like freezers, air conditioners, transformers, microwaves, ice makers and more.
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Propane can be used as a coolant in small air-conditioners at a fraction of the climate impact of HFCs, and ammonia is an industrial coolant with no greenhouse effects.
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Air-conditioning presents other problems: As of 2009, nearly 90 percent of American homes have air-conditioners, which account for about 6 percent of all the country's residential energy use.
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Trump just announced that his administration is preparing to impose another $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods, on products ranging from pickles and pastries to refrigerators and air conditioners.
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Cooling, from the air conditioners in our homes to the systems that regulate temperature at computer data centers and grocery stores, is already responsible for about 10% of global warming.
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But it is one of the most important alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which have long been used in air-conditioners and refrigerators and which contribute greatly to climate change.
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Which is why the structure of the recent landmark agreement reached in Kigali, Rwanda, on limiting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in, among other things, air-conditioners and refrigerators is so important.
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If you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.
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She and other residents at the subsidized apartment tower where she lives could not switch on lights, cook on electric stoves, turn on bedroom air-conditioners or use washing machines.
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After a giant hole appeared in the layer in 20103, much of the world signed on to the Montreal Protocol outlawing CFC-22010, used mostly in refrigerators and air-conditioners.
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A lot of larger air-conditioners run year-round — for example, older data centers can generate a tremendous amount of heat — so we need to maintain them during the winter.
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But there is growing concern that as other countries adopt America's love of air-conditioners, the electricity used to power them will overburden electrical grids and increase planet-warming emissions.
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To find the most efficient air-conditioners, look for Energy Star ratings, said Mina Agarabi, a mechanical engineer and consultant who focuses on the operation and maintenance of mechanical systems.
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For instance, the batteries can be set so that devices such as electric vehicles or air conditioners do not necessarily draw power at peak times, but before or after them.
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Much of the early speculation about the deal, including from analysts, was that United Technologies planned to spin off its commercial unit, which includes Otis elevators and Carrier air-conditioners.
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"Air-conditioners are expensive and consume a lot of energy," Sadio Konte, a 26-year-old cooling himself in the waters of the Trocadéro, by the Eiffel Tower, said Thursday.
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South Australia depends on wind for more than a third of its power supply, and the wind died down at the same time as people started cranking up air-conditioners.
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About 75% of all electricity produced in the UAE is sucked up by buildings, mainly to fuel air-conditioners that keep locals fresh during the scorching summer months, Stewart said.
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The villa, surrounded by flowering tropical plants with an automatic irrigation system, has air-conditioners recently added in each room, and a commercial-grade washer and dryer in an outbuilding.
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Mr. Stockwell said a new "four-pipe" central heating and cooling system will eliminate the need for window-mounted air-conditioners and allow the rooms to have independent temperature control.
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That apocalyptic feeling was shared by Eurotunnel travelers, after thousands of tickets were canceled because of lightning, fires and air-conditioners buckled by the extreme heat, according to local reports.
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Home air conditioners consume about 5 percent of all the electricity generated in the US and produce 100 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to the Department of Energy.
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Converting the building, which had been abandoned for two years after the war, required "heavy cleaning work, electricity, water system repairs as well as installing air conditioners," according to MSF.
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During the heat in June, some Chinese cities asked industrial facilities to limit their production so that the Chinese could use the power to power their air-conditioners, according to Reuters.
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The popularity of these Catskills resorts as summertime destinations for the entire family waned as air conditioners and air travel became more common and many of them shuttered or were demolished.
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It ranks among the top four in terms of sales value in most of the major appliances (including air conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines), and consistently ranks first in small appliances.
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But despite the best efforts of the downtown San Francisco Hilton's air conditioners, the air shared by the attendees of this year's Automated Vehicles Symposium was thick with secrets and doubt.
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Computer banks in schools and large air conditioners pumping out chills strain the grid, and daily state-mandated power cuts run from at least three hours to 12 hours or more.
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The backstory here is that HFCs were developed in the 210s to replace the CFCs in our fridges and air conditioners that were famously chewing a hole in the ozone layer.
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Although it sounds really scary, the good news is that home and car air-conditioners don't use water to cool the air, so they aren't at risk, according to the CDC.
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Air conditioners: The Energy Department is finalizing new energy conservation standards for small, large, and very large air-cooled commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment and commercial warm air furnaces.
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In the weeks ahead, as Iraqis face soaring summer temperatures, a lack of electricity to power air-conditioners and growing anger over security lapses, many expect a return of street protests.
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Commercial air-conditioners cool shopping malls as temperatures outside soar past 28 degrees in the summer, and children go sledding at Snow City, a frigid new recreation center in the capital.
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More than 170 countries signed a sweeping deal on Saturday to cut hydrofluorocarbons, used in air-conditioners and refrigerators, which could be even more far-reaching than the Paris climate accord.
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Peak demand in the summer, when people turn on air conditioners due to high temperatures, is about 21 GW, far exceeding the 13 GW the grid is currently provides, experts say.
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The deal with Carrier, best known for its air-conditioners, saves 1,000 jobs through a $20163 million incentive package — just the kind of corporate giveaway he knocked on the campaign trail.
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If your windows are horizontal-sliding or crank-out models, casement air-conditioners like the Frigidaire FFRS0822S1 ($460) or the Kenmore 77223 ($123) are widely available options, according to The Sweethome.
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If the setup of your home doesn&apost allow for a window AC unit, but you still want to keep cool, check out our guide to the best portable air conditioners.
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Data showed they bought more cars, air-conditioners, television sets and other appliances during the three months that ended in June, fueling an unusually high annualized growth rate of 4 percent.
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Not long afterward, the agency determined that the compounds, then widely used in refrigerators, air-conditioners and some industrial processes, posed an even graver threat to the atmosphere than first thought.
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Shickman's organization found that in Washington, D.C., when maximum temperatures reached 95 degrees residents were demanding up to 40 percent more power from the grid, due to cranked-up air conditioners.
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In October, United Technologies, a jet engines-to-air conditioners group, soothed investor nerves over the deal by saying that that it was confident of getting Chinese approval for the purchase.
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A heat pump is a "mechanical-compression cycle refrigeration system" that can serve as both a furnace and an air conditioner (indeed, many air conditioners are just one-way heat pumps).
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The National Weather Service urges people in sweltering regions to drink lots of water, check on older people and those without air-conditioners, and to avoid difficult, outdoor tasks if possible.
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Not only did that gas keep the lights on and air conditioners churning out cold air, it kept pressure in the lines high enough to keep fuel flowing to all customers.
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The fund manager, whose firm owns roughly 0.67% of United Technologies, had previously supported the company in its plans to split into three businesses - aerospace, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners.
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There is no music to drown out the drone of air conditioners inside the Snow City theme park in the Saudi Arabian capital, in keeping with the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam.
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The lack of electricity doesn't simply mean months of hardship for the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican who will be without air conditioners, fans, televisions, and refrigerators for the foreseeable future.
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Consumers in California use more gas in the winter for heating than during the summer when much of it is used to fuel power plants to produce electricity to run air conditioners.
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While air conditioners and fans are warm weather go-tos, this portable gel pad is another helpful piece to ensure your pet is comfortable on the hottest days, according to Amazon shoppers.
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But one group of researchers has imagined how an entire power grid could be taken down by hacking a less centralized and protected class of targets: home air conditioners and water heaters.
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At a United Nations conference in Rwanda, 197 nations agreed to drastically reduce their use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), an obscure but extremely powerful greenhouse gas used in air conditioners, refrigerators, and foams.
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And they're becoming widespread: Without further action, the use of HFCs would have soared in China, India, and other developing countries, which are on pace to install some 700 million air conditioners.
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The Department of Energy under Obama's leadership has put out regulations meant to save energy in water heaters, air conditioners, ceiling fans, dishwashers and a wide swath of other applicances and equipment.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn't want the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a court ruling that overturned the agency's limits on certain Earth-warming chemicals used in air conditioners.
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Why it matters: The policy, to phase down greenhouse gases emitted from refrigerants in appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators, is the only Obama-era climate policy Trump hasn't targeted for repeal.
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Better cooling technology exists, yet the average efficiency of air conditioners sold today is less than half that of other widely available models and only a third of the best available technology.
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The details: The coalition, called Let America Lead, focuses on how the policy — a phase-down of heat-trapping chemicals used in appliances like air conditioners — makes America competitive and creates jobs.
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The International Energy Agency forecast Tuesday that the number of air conditioners in buildings worldwide will more than triple by 2050, reaching 5.6 billion as demand surges in India, China and elsewhere.
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But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.
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The number of air-conditioners worldwide is predicted to soar from 1.6 billion units today to 5.6 billion units by midcentury, according to a report issued Tuesday by the International Energy Agency.
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On the other end of the spectrum, air-conditioners sold in Japan and the European Union tend to be 25 percent more efficient than units sold in the United States and China.
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In a suburb of Tokyo, the unpredictable and faintly lecherous Mr. Nakano runs a shop selling secondhand goods, from T-shirts and air-conditioners to vintage Glico plastic toys from the 1930s.
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"The explosion is suspected to have been caused by a gas cylinder controlling the central air conditioner in the banking hall causing shock waves that affected other air conditioners there," he said.
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The company also benefited during the quarter as a cool April turned into a warmer May and shifted sales of items like air conditioners, swimwear and gardening supplies later into the year.
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The Badarpur plant was reopened partly in anticipation of surplus power demand in Delhi in the summer, when temperatures reach a scorching 120 degrees and fans, coolers, and air-conditioners work overtime.
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If you plan to be away from home for at least a couple of hours, raise the temperature to 85 Fahrenheit, or roughly 29 Celsius, or just shut your air-conditioners off.
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If you plan to be away from home for at least a couple of hours, raise the temperature to 85 Fahrenheit, or roughly 29 Celsius, or just shut your air-conditioners off.
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At the busy Pharr International Bridge in South Texas, big rigs line up to cross into the United States, loaded with everything from denim jeans to air conditioners to giant dump truck beds.
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From air conditioners to automobiles, companies who make big ticket items outside the U.S. for import to American consumers have been put on notice, and many have reacted by saying they'll add jobs.
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A recent survey of top economists asked whether it was smart to slap import duties on products such as air conditioners or cars to encourage producers to make them in the United States.
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A school employee had attempted to alert headmaster Lei Hua about the excessive use of electricity, but Hau reportedly blamed it on the heaters and air conditioners, according to South China Morning Post.
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The maker of Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners said it will use the cash to reduce borrowing for its acquisition of avionics and seating supplier Rockwell Collins COL.
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It's designed to reduce the need for "peaker plants" — electricity generation facilities that run when electricity demands are particularly high, such as on a hot afternoon when air conditioners are running full tilt.
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They split the cost of getting two air-conditioners serviced and, while they do share a couple of ageing computers, they are always short of paper for their printer and have no photocopier.
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Try turning off your AC.It may seem contradictory, but according to a lecture by environmentalist Stan Cox, air conditioners are making our summers miserable in more than one way, New York Magazine reported.
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The company, which makes Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, said net sales rose 20.5 percent to $18.37 billion, and were above the Wall Street's expectation of $17.99 billion.
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Organizers did finally agree to install air conditioners in the bedrooms to allay fears over the mosquito-borne Zika virus, despite the expected cool temperatures during the games, which fall during Rio's winter.
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A different group of analysts realized that they could potentially take a power grid down by conscripting air conditioners, water heaters, and other devices into a botnet and coordinating a massive power draw.
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It makes getting out of the house that much easier: With no power to operate fans or air conditioners, it's too hot to stay inside, so he must step out into the breeze.
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Partly driven by growing demand for air conditioners, HFCs are one of the fastest-growing greenhouse gases, increasing at a rate of 10-to-15 percent per year in parts of the world.
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Living without power Puerto Ricans have been depending heavily on generators, using them to power lifesaving machines like ventilators and dialysis equipment, as well as to keep fans, air conditioners and stoves functioning.
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The measures include temporarily suspending vehicle permits for legislators and state employees, while imports of vehicles, refrigerators, air conditioners, televisions, perfume, telephones including mobile phones, washing machines, footwear and tyres are also affected.
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Once in a landfill, rotting material releases methane that can, in the short term, drive climate change at a much faster pace than emissions from other sources, such as automobiles or air conditioners.
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The DOE listed the efficiency standards for air conditioners as an "economically significant" rule, which means it is expected to have an impact on the economy of $85033 million or more each year.
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Buying has picked up more than it usually would in the warmer summer months, with households cranking up their air conditioners in the face of scorching temperatures since early spring in many areas.
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With two other researchers, Philip Fernbach and Donald Lichtenstein, Mr. de Langhe began a study that compared online reviews for items like air-conditioners and car batteries with the evaluations in Consumer Reports.
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And Congress culled the list further, removing items such as air conditioners, which would have been controversial after Trump made a big deal of stopping Carrier Corporation from moving a factory to Mexico.
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The company, which also makes Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, now expects 2018 adjusted earnings per share to be in the range of $7.10-$7.25, up from prior forecast of $6.95-$7.15.
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On Saturday, more than 170 countries took another important step when they agreed to phase out a powerful planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators and to seek more benign substitutes.
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Many, like the protesters in Lianyungang, are happy to have the power they need to run their air-conditioners but want to keep the unpleasant parts of the operation far from their doorsteps.
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Trader Joe's also recommends you keep your yogi away from air conditioners or heating vents, in medium to bright, indirect sunlight, or somewhere it will receive at least 8 hours of artificial light.
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Companies like Honeywell, Dow Chemical and Johnson Controls are well positioned to produce next-generation air-conditioners and alternatives to HFCs, and they don't want to lose out on a budding global market.
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Mr. McCabe is in the process of trying out GE Appliances' new smart air-conditioners, which operate using Amazon Alexa, but said he had more tests to do before he could recommend them.
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Buildings: While this section is less prescriptive, the IPCC suggests that people shift to more sustainable behavior when it comes to their homes, for example using smart thermostats or more efficient air conditioners.
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Scientists have long known that cities tend to be hotter than rural areas, partly because concrete buildings and asphalt roads absorb heat and partly because of waste heat from cars and air-conditioners.
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United Technologies, the maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney engines, and Carrier air conditioners, reported a 6.303 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher sales in three of its four business units.
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Black people, for example, are almost twice as likely as other residents to die during a heatwave in Los Angeles due to segregation and a lower likelihood of having access to air conditioners.
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Over the next 2517 hours of this heat wave, electricity use will surge higher as millions of air conditioners blast at full force, and the power grid will sputter as power lines strain.
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Air conditioners, refrigerators, furnaces and ovens Mexico exported $8.4 billion worth of those appliances to the United States last year, which amounted to 44% of American imports in that sector, according to Goldman Sachs.
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The new directory breaks down offers for the following categories of Apple-compatible smart devices: lights, switches, outlets, thermostats, windows, fans, air conditioners, sensors, security, locks, cameras, doorbells, garage doors, bridges, and range extenders.
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However, officials have continued to sit on the other four standards for portable air conditioners, air compressors, commercial packaged boilers and what are called uninterruptible power sources, backup power for computers and other equipment.
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Urban agriculture has the potential to save energy equivalent to the use of air conditioners in nearly 9 million United States households, and to produce up to 180 million tonnes of food, they found.
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In recent weeks, using his Twitter account, he has pressured Carrier, a manufacturer of air-conditioners, to maintain a factory in Indianapolis that it had planned to relocate to Mexico—preserving around 800 jobs.
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Surplus renewable electricity can be stored in a fleet of electric vehicle batteries, or as heat in water heaters, or as ice in air conditioners, and used when wind and solar production has slowed.
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If you've ever thought it'd be nice to remotely turn on or off home essentials such as lamps, air conditioners and fans from your smartphone, plugging them into a smart outlet makes it possible.
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In decades past, businessmen were expected to wear neckties, but that's changed since the government started a "cool biz" campaign in 2005 to encourage companies to turn down air-conditioners and reduce electricity use.
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Air conditioners venting hot air outside can contribute to urban warming, and if the electricity that powers them comes from fossil fuels, they can increase the amount of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
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Plastic bags used to protect the surface of home appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines and other kitchen appliances will also be replaced with bags containing recycled materials and bioplastics.
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The maker of Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners, however, posted a drop in net income attributable to shareholders to $1.30 billion in the first quarter ended March 31 from $1.39 billion.
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In the past, Samsung has said it wants to bring Tizen to other home appliances such as robot vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and air conditioners, and has also attempted to bring it to cars.
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Representatives from about 150 nations heard the appeal as they opened negotiations on a deal to reduce the use of factory-made hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, which are used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosols.
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Like other major U.S. manufacturers, UTC, a maker of Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Carrier air conditioners and Otis elevators, has benefited from a boom in air travel and record global sales of commercial jets.
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More people would be more comfortable — improving their health and productivity— if furnaces and air conditioners could respond in real time to how building occupants were feeling, including how they change through the day.
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And there are the halocarbons such as the CFCs and HFCs in our air conditioners and refrigerators that trap heat when they leak out of aging or faulty equipment and waft into the atmosphere.
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The department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on Monday submitted new energy conservation standards for central air conditioners and heat pumps to the White House's Office of Management and Budget for approval.
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The company asked customers not to use energy-intensive appliances such as washers and dryers until the work had been completed, and to turn off air conditioners unless needed for health or medical reasons.
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The largest share of the increase in final energy consumption will be from power generation, with rising incomes in the region sparking more people to buy electric appliances including air conditioners, the IEA said.
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In Karachi, calm prevailed around the main electronics market in the old city that would normally be bustling on a Saturday with traders selling everything from mobile phones to televisions, refrigerators and air conditioners.
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In March, before that freeze ended, DOE said it would continue to postpone efficiency testing procedures for compressors, as well as those for walk-in coolers and freezers, central air conditioners and heat pumps.
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Over the weekend, Secretary of State John Kerry attended negotiations in Vienna aimed at forging a new global deal to ban the use of hydrofluorocarbons, planet-warming chemicals used in refrigerators and air-conditioners.
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The rising use of air conditioners (ACs) in offices and homes is set to be a top driver of global electricity demand in the next 30 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday.
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The Kigali deal was seven years in the making, and is a compromise between rich nations and poorer, hotter ones, including some where rising incomes are just starting to bring air-conditioners within reach.
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And they're becoming widespread: In the coming decade, the use of HFCs is expected to soar in China, India, and other developing countries, which are on pace to install some 700 million air conditioners.
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Several Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee slammed bipartisan legislation to gradually reduce the use of heat-trapping chemicals in air conditioners and refrigerators, arguing the measure would raise costs for consumers.
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Everywhere, civilian men wearing traditional Yazidi headgear were loading trucks and cars with appliances, furniture, cabinetry, rolled-up carpets, kitchenware, flat-screen TVs, space heaters, air-conditioners, lamps, toys, clothes, shoes, tools, and bedding.
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For diesel, traders said a record heat-wave in south and southeast Asia had pushed up fuel demand to operate air conditioners, while jet fuel demand was soaring because of Asia's booming air travel.
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Even as their efficiency improves, air conditioners contribute to the problem of global warming, as they need power to run - much of which will be provided by burning fossil fuels in the near term.
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The maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners said income from continuing operations attributable to shareholders fell to $1.33 billion, or $1.67 per share, in the third quarter ended Sept.
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CEO Jonas Samuelson said "almost all" of the increase was due to its sourcing of tariff-hit Chinese goods, which include electronic components, compressors, electric motors as well as finished goods such as air conditioners.
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Not only is that expensive for customers, it also raises emissions of greenhouse gases in the form both of carbon dioxide from burning power-station fuel and of the hydrofluorocarbons air conditioners use as refrigerants.
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One of the winners, Lei Jun, ventured that in five years the sales of Xiaomi, the smartphone-maker he founded in 2010, would surpass those of Gree, a manufacturer of air-conditioners with government roots.
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On the hottest summer days, the city needs to quickly fire up some of these auxiliary plants to help keep up with the increased energy demand stemming from millions of air conditioners running full throttle.
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In decades past, businessmen were expected to wear neckties, but that has changed since the government started a "cool biz" campaign in 2005 to encourage companies to turn down air-conditioners and reduce electricity use.
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And there are additional barriers for people who want to install air conditioners in public housing: Residents must apply for approval and pay an annual fee for each air conditioner they put in their homes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior State Department officials said on Wednesday they were "optimistic" that a deal on cutting greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosols can be struck during meetings in Rwanda this week.
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The company, which is eyeing other growth avenues after a failed attempt to buy General Electric's white goods business, later sold to China's Haier Group, already makes connected air conditioners, cookers, washing machines and driers.
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"Potential for heat illness is higher than usual," the agency said in a statement, adding that people should "take appropriate measures," including drinking lots of water, staying away from direct sunlight and using air conditioners.
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Also that month, negotiators from more than 170 countries reached an agreement in Kigali, Rwanda, that will cut the use of planet-warming refrigerants: hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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A recent report from The Rocky Mountain Institute estimates a fivefold increase in the number of room air conditioners (RACs) on the market in developing nations by 2628 -- from 28503 to 22019 billion units globally.
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Cooling: The efficiency of most air conditioners is far below the best available technology — a major concern as global sales of AC units are projected to reach 10 per second over the next 30 years.
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"Sales of seasonal items such as cold drinks and air conditioners were solid, and rising gasoline prices likely boosted the value of fuel sales," said Takumi Tsunoda, senior economist at Shinkin Central Bank Research Institute.
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During the campaign, Trump took direct aim at the company, at one point saying he would slap a 85033 percent tariff on air conditioners made by Carrier in Mexico if they sent those jobs south.
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Once known as the Venice of the East, Basra city, which has a population of 250 million, lacks clean water and does not have enough electricity to power air conditioners in the scorching summer heat.
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"We think the world needs air-conditioners that are five times more efficient," said Iain Campbell of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit that wrote the new report and is managing the prize.
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And there are the halocarbons such as the CFCs and HFCs in our air conditioners and refrigerators that also trap heat when they leak out of aging or faulty equipment and waft into the atmosphere.
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Mayor Daniel Hilburn of Lake Waccamaw, a town of about 1,500 people west of Wilmington, was urgently seeking air-conditioners for a nursing home with 101 residents and an assisted living facility with 65 residents.
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Gree Electric Appliances of Zhuhai, the world's biggest residential air-conditioner manufacturer, started building its own chips for air-conditioners three years ago in an attempt to lower costs and better control its supply chain.
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The UK's big four retailers, which also include Tesco, Walmart-owned Asda and WM Morrison, wrap goods in needless plastic, power inefficient buildings with polluting air conditioners and in some cases sell diesel from forecourts.
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Thousands of people were evacuated from Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks after a construction mishap damaged the area's main power line, plunging the islands into darkness and shutting off air-conditioners.
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One-third of the reductions in the proposal would come from curbing climate pollutants other than carbon dioxide, including hydrofluorocarbons from air-conditioners and methane from landfills, wastewater facilities and manure piles at dairy farms.
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With the deal, argues Dan Hamza-Goodacre, boss of the Kigali Cooling-Efficiency Programme, a non-governmental organisation, air-conditioners can produce better health, higher productivity and more food while limiting the rise in global temperatures.
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When that was broken up in the 1930s it became United Aircraft, changing its name to UTC in 1975, after which it bought Otis, a lift company, and Carrier, created by the inventor of air-conditioners.
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GE and Whirlpool have already integrated similar support across their respective products, and now "the full line of Kenmore smart appliances" — air conditioners, refrigerators, and more — can be controlled with a new Alexa skill, Kenmore Smart.
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CFC-11, once used in refrigerators and air conditioners, is one of the chemicals banned under the Montreal Protocol, a treaty to protect the earth's ozone layer by phasing out all global CFC production by 2010.
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The court declined to hear the appeals by an environmental group and companies that supported the 2015 rule that had limited hydrofluorocarbons, which are used in a variety of products including spray cans and air conditioners.
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LG said the new chip includes its own neural engine that will improve the deep-learning algorithms used in its future smart home devices, which will include robot vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners.
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More than 90 percent of Argentina's air conditioners, cellphones, televisions and microwaves are produced in Tierra del Fuego, which was turned into a special economic zone free of many taxes in the 1970s to lure businesses.
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Since the "Red for Ed" movement started in Arizona, teachers have filled social media with pictures of of vermin-filled classrooms and tattered textbooks, improvised air conditioners and globes showing a Soviet Union and two Germanys.
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We were just dealing with broken escalators and a long, steep hike to the theaters in TIFF's main megaplex, with high humidity and air conditioners operating well below capacity in theaters that were nearly at capacity.
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SoCalGas issued a gas curtailment watch on Monday, notifying customers to be prepared to reduce gas use if needed, with power generators expected to burn more fuel this week than usual to keep air conditioners humming.
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In Texas, however, power demand is expected to reach a record high 74,900 megawatts (MW) on Monday and almost 75,000 MW on Tuesday as consumers crank up their air conditioners to escape a brutal heat wave.
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The air is scented with a rosewater-tinged infusion ("It comes in through the air-conditioners," a saleswoman whispered), and the shelves are stocked with vintage paperbacks by Françoise Sagan, Stendhal, Victor Hugo and André Malraux.
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To keep the water cool enough for the fish to survive, the whole building is built like an air-raid bunker, with 2000-centimeter-thick concrete walls for insulation and air-conditioners blasting around the clock.
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KIGALI, Rwanda — Negotiators from more than 220 countries on Saturday reached a legally binding accord to counter climate change by cutting the worldwide use of a powerful planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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Dr. Greenstone was an author of a recent paper that looked more carefully at projected heat deaths from global warming as well as the costs of adapting to higher temperatures, such as buying more air-conditioners.
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Greenhouse gas emissions released by coal and natural gas plants when generating electricity to power those air-conditioners would nearly double, from 19603 billion tons in 2016 to 2.28 billion tons in 2050, the report says.
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I've mostly focused on California in this post, but it's worth pointing out that in other, less temperate states, the electricity system faces higher seasonal peaks, as everyone turns on heaters or air conditioners at once.
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Europe accounts for just 6 percent of the global share of air-conditioners, compared with 23 percent for the United States and 35 percent for China, according to a 2018 report by the International Energy Agency.
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Shops and households that can afford air-conditioners cranked them up, but most people were left with few options: wet washcloths and electric fans, and those only for the few hours when the power was on.
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The Energy Department under Perry's watch also violated the law by temporarily withholding funds for certain research grants, as well as unlawfully delayed four rules requiring air conditioners, boilers, and other products to use less energy.
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In 20153, the government unveiled "Cool Biz," a campaign to reduce energy consumption in the summer by discouraging the use of air-conditioners and encouraging workers to dress more casually — wearing short-sleeve shirts, for instance.
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Indeed, Soleri was so adept at this practice that the only air conditioners needed on site are in the archive for preservation purposes, even though temperatures in the desert can reach nearly 503 F during the summer.
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Peak demand during the summer, when people turn on air conditioners to combat temperatures that can reach 50 degrees Celsius, is about 21,000 MW, far exceeding the 13,000 MW the grid is currently providing, according to Mudaris.
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Power consumption hit a record 36,20403 MW this month, close to the maximum available capacity, according to government data, while the government this week asked consumers not to set air-conditioners too low to help avoid blackouts.
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The developers expect Luciola to find applications in the so-called Internet of Things, in which regular objects, such as cars, or domestic appliances such as air-conditioners, are connected to networks to send and receive data.
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The deal would likely keep a workforce in the U.S. The company has made it clear that in order to remain competitive with other manufacturers of furnaces and air conditioners, it needs to lower its labor costs.
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Nearly 200 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a Rwandan minister announced to loud cheers on Saturday, in a major step against climate change.
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BANGKOK, July 31 (Reuters) - * Thailand's manufacturing production index (MPI) in June rose 4.74 percent from a year earlier, helped by higher production of cars and parts, sugar, air conditioners and electronics, the Industry Ministry said on Tuesday.
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When our Founding Fathers adopted the Declaration of Independence some 16.993 years ago, they (probably) didn't intend for future generations of Americans to commemorate the momentous occasion with *checks notes* discounts on espresso and smart air conditioners.
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The SmartThinQ Hub / Alexa integration also will allow voice commands for other LG SmartThinQ compatible devices through the hub, allowing for direct voice control of things like lights, fans, air conditioners, and other products in LG's ecosystem.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australian thermal coal prices have hit six-year highs as a heatwave across the Northern Hemisphere has triggered a spike in demand for coal-fired power to help keep air conditioners cranking out cool blasts.
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Analysts said ahead of the Friday disclosure that the firm likely saw strong profit from its appliances business due to sales of premium products and unusually warm weather in certain markets that boosted demand for air conditioners.
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Electricity consumption has risen significantly over the past 10 years as Cubans who receive remittances from abroad kept air-conditioners whirring and private restaurants, bars and bed-and-breakfasts added refrigerators and heated food in toaster ovens.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Many Indians are switching off air conditioners in cars and going to gas pumps across state borders in a bid to save money, as petrol prices across the country hover at record-high levels.
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But, when I turn to see what P.T. is looking at, all I notice is an ugly, four-story building covered in plaster and dotted with air-conditioners, as if it had some kind of skin disease.
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Software locks are common in other industries—John Deere tractors, for instance, cannot be repaired without specific software codes from a John Deere dealer, and many industrial appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners have similar locks.
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"I have written before that air conditioners are like cars; they have changed our lives and we have built our cities around them," he wrote in a piece that frequently challenged his previous thinking on the issue.
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After three years in office, the Trump administration has shown little enthusiasm for issuing new energy standards — and has even missed legal deadlines to review existing ones for 20193 products, including water heaters and room air conditioners.
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Imagine how many Americans could get a mortgage and buy a home if millions of Americans no longer had a criminal record (and imagine how many new Carrier furnaces and air conditioners would be sold and installed).
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Specialized materials made from metals in the form of powders, foil and plate to make super-thin film are used in products from batteries for electric vehicles through to appliances like smartphones, air-conditioners and rice cookers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. chemical companies including Honeywell and Chemours Co are ramping up efforts to produce alternative coolants used in air-conditioners and refrigerators, following a global pact to reduce planet-warming greenhouse house gas emissions.
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Volunteering in his spare time as a community officer for his Democratic Party in Tuen Mun over the past two years, Lo became familiar with day-to-day issues, from small legal claims to faulty air-conditioners.
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In Alaska, warmer-than-usual temperatures forced the cancellation of sled dog races, while cities in New Zealand, where the weather is generally so temperate that most homes don't have heating or air-conditioners, broke heat records.
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The goal of this movement is to ultimately get a law passed that will allow farmers, independent repair people, and average consumers to take back ownership of their tractors, their tablets, their cell phones, their air conditioners.
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With air conditioners already accounting for up to 60 percent of the summertime electricity use in cities like New Delhi, simply meeting the demand — and meeting it without burning huge amounts of fossil fuels — will be a challenge.
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The jet engines-to-air conditioners group, under pressure from activist investors to split itself up, also said it was considering options for a break-up including entertaining interest from third parties to buy any of its businesses.
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Thermal coal prices CZCcv1 soared in the second quarter, extending the run-up to record highs, as people cranked up air conditioners due to a prolonged heatwave, hydropower cuts in southern China and a crackdown on mine safety.
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Private consumption, which accounts for about 60% of the economy, rose 0.6% from the previous quarter to mark the third straight quarter of increase, thanks to brisk demand for cars and air conditioners, a government official told reporters.
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Daikin sees AI as essential to its future business model, in which it plans to offer subscription services with AI-powered air conditioners adjusting the temperature and quality of air autonomously to improve efficiency in factories and households.
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Hackers could've hijacked internet-connected refrigerators, ovens, air conditioners, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, and camera-equipped robotic vacuum cleaners manufactured by LG, thanks to a flaw in the mobile app used to control them, according to security researchers.
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United Technologies, the maker of Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners, beat analyst expectations with a 17.8 percent rise in first-quarter profit, helped by higher sales in all four of its business units.
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United Tech, which makes Otis Elevators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Carrier air conditioners, in February said it would decide by the end of 2018 whether its businesses were more valuable together or better off as separate entities.
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The first so-called domestic white-noise machine may have been built in 1962, by a traveling salesman whose wife grew used to the air-conditioners in the motels they frequented and was unable to sleep at home.
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Democrats have been fighting to add amendments that would phase down the use of heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners, as well as another that could push to make new homes more energy efficient.
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The rise in power usage in populous states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar may have been due to the use of household air conditioners and other appliances, said Victor Vanya, director at power analytics firm EMA Solutions.
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Under the plan, the government is considering expanding the scope of an existing arrangement that exempts small firms from property taxation for three years if they invest in machinery and air-conditioners needed to enhance productivity, it said.
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It began as the parts arm of General Motors, and years ago operated dozens of unionized plants that churned out the type of mechanical auto components that put venture capitalists to sleep: air-conditioners, brakes, heaters and radios.
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As residents in the Los Angeles area cranked up their air conditioners, SoCalGas said it delivered about 3.3 billion cubic feet of gas and received 3.2 bcf from pipelines, using 0.1 bcf from storage other than Aliso Canyon.
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Coolers can also do something air conditioners can't: because they lower the temperature of the air that passes through them, rather than removing heat from a sealed room, they can cool people in huge open spaces and even outdoors.
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The maker of Otis Elevators and Carrier air conditioners had said a month ago that it expected 28 adjusted earnings of $28-$6.60 per share on sales of $57.5 billion-$59.0 billion, forecasts that it stood by on Wednesday.
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Mr Bove and Mrs Gavrilova find that back-office equipment, including such things as air-conditioners, which accounts for about two-fifths of the total value of the 1033 programme, is much more effective than vehicles and tactical gear.
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At a U.N. conference in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, negotiators reached a deal to amend the nearly 30-year-old Montreal Protocol to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are synthetic chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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At a U.N. conference in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, negotiators reached a deal to amend the nearly 0.53-year-old Montreal Protocol to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are synthetic chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
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In a series of simulations, the researchers imagined what might happen if hackers controlled a botnet composed of thousands of silently hacked consumer internet of things devices, particularly power-hungry ones like air conditioners, water heaters, and space heaters.
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Those halocarbons are responsible for about 8 percent of humanity's total global warming impact: For much of the 20th century, we relied on CFCs (short for chlorofluorocarbons, also known as Freon) as refrigerants in our air conditioners and refrigerators.
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Utilities in the eastern half of the United States expect to have enough resources to meet power demand on Friday but asked consumers to turn down air conditioners to avoid putting stress on the system, which could cause outages.
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When I was 11 years old and spent my summers in hot, humid, sticky Singapore, I came up with what I thought was a grand idea at the time: portable, personal air conditioners — a cooling boombox, if you will.
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That hot weather, however, is unlikely to spur large demand for spot cargoes of LNG for power plants supplying electricity to the country's air conditioners as most Japanese utilities have more than enough contracted LNG volumes, the sources said.
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Toward the end of former President Obama's administration, the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued new energy conservation standards for various refrigeration products, dedicated-purpose pool pumps and residential central air conditioners and heat pumps.
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Despite obvious threats to their populations from rising sea levels and droughts, some developing countries like India pushed back hard, in part because their people were on the verge of being able to afford air-conditioners powered by HFCs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of U.S. states has mounted a broad legal challenge against what it called the Trump administration's illegal suspension of rules to improve the energy efficiency of ceiling fans, portable air conditioners and other products.
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Carrier is best known for its air-conditioners, but it also sells a variety of other heating and cooling equipment for homes and businesses, like the gas furnaces and fan coils for electric furnaces made at the Indianapolis factory.
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Meaning he wasn't a white-collar person, but we had Sears Toughskins, we were taking air conditioners in and out of our house, we shared one bathroom, five of us, but it was a great way to grow up.
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Though the Police Department handles the vast majority of noise complaints, inspectors with the Department of Environmental Protection also investigate mechanical sources and environmental noise, including after-hours construction, air-conditioners and ventilation equipment, alarms and even barking dogs.
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When record temperatures swept the Northeast this past July — and everyone blasted their air conditioners all at once — the region's grid operators reported that rooftop solar helped keep the lights on and saved ratepayers $85033 million over seven days.
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KIGALI (Reuters) - Nearly 280 nations have agreed a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a major move against climate change that prompted loud cheers when it was announced on Saturday.
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A weaker currency also does not pack the same competitive punch because so much of the world's manufacturing base is now in China; four-fifths of the world's window-mounted air-conditioners are made in the country, for example.
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He attributed this mainly to an acceleration in the American and Chinese economies but also to the fall of the renminbi, which makes air-conditioners slightly cheaper and more affordable around the world and results in slightly greater demand.
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Qatar likewise could shut down an undersea natural gas pipeline running to the United Arab Emirates, a crucial power source for a desert nation that relies on desalination plants for water and air conditioners to cope with the scorching heat.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Havells India Ltd, a leading maker of lights and fans, has agreed to buy a unit of Lloyd Electric and Engineering Ltd that sells air conditioners and televisions in a 15.5 billion-rupee deal ($231.14 million), the companies said.
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United Technologies also produces a wide range of products, from elevators and air conditioners (at least through 2020), as well as aircraft engines for the military (for the F-15 and F-35 fighter jets) and civilian (for Airbus and Gulfstream).
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Chai Maofeng, a 28-year-old beef distributor in Xuchang, a Henan city of about 4 million people, opened ten credit card accounts in 2016 to furnish his apartment with a sofa set, refrigerator, air conditioners and televisions all brand new.
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Three other large firms, including Midea Group Co Ltd , a major producer of kitchen appliances and air conditioners in Brazil, will sell just a small selection of products through Amazon's 1P operation, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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Three other large firms, including Midea Group Co Ltd, a major producer of kitchen appliances and air conditioners in Brazil, will sell just a small selection of products through Amazon's 1P operation, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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The (lack of) logic explains why the administration has rolled back emissions reduction requirements on methane (from oil and gas drilling and industrial animal farming), carbon dioxide (for coal fired power plants), and hydrofluorocarbons (used in refrigerators and air conditioners).
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OSLO (Reuters) - A pact by almost 23.5 nations to slash greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners will likely fall short of governments' hopes of averting a full half-degree Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit) of warming this century, scientists say.
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The kingdom's energy subsidies have long kept power and fuel at a fraction of cost price, draining the state budget and giving consumers little incentive to buy smaller cars or switch off power-hungry air conditioners — even when they leave home.
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Chai Maofeng, a 28-year-old beef distributor in Xuchang, a Henan city of about 4 million people, opened ten credit card accounts in 2016 to furnish his apartment with a sofa set, refrigerator, air conditioners and televisions – all brand new.
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In Washington, DC, today, President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that they'd reached a deal on cutting the use of HFCs — a little-discussed but extremely potent greenhouse gas used in air conditioners — in the decades ahead.
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The Sears deal delivers another bit of interesting news as well, with Sears' reluctant shuffling into the 21st century bringing Alexa skills to Kenmore appliances, including air conditioners — functionality that GE brought to its own appliances earlier in the years.
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However, most air conditioners past the 6,000 BTU range will be programmable, so you can set them to turn off for parts of the day you're not home, or only run when the AC unit's internal thermostat records a certain temperature.
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UTC, which also makes Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, raised the mid-point of its 2500 adjusted earnings per share forecast by increasing the lower end by 10 cents to $7.80, while keeping the upper end unchanged at $8.
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New York (CNN)For some older adults, private Medicare Advantage plans next year will offer a host of new benefits, such as transportation to medical appointments, home-delivered meals, wheelchair ramps, bathroom grab bars or air conditioners for asthma sufferers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. and Mexican refrigerant gas makers asked the U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese-made R134a, the coolant most widely used in automotive air conditioners and home refrigerators.
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The same goes for dishwashers, air conditioners, electric motors, and more—refrigerator standards are just one example of dozens of money-saving energy efficiency standards for appliances and equipment that have been put into place over the past three decades.
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He cited Carrier again and again on the campaign trail, threatening to phone executives at the company and its parent, United Technologies, and to hit them with 35 percent tariffs on any furnaces and air-conditioners they imported from Mexico.
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This is partly because Saudi Arabia usually burns more crude in power stations at home in the summer months to meet extra demand for power as people rely on air conditioners to deal with temperatures that can reach 50 degrees Celsius.
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The default structure of the electricity system for the last century has been "hub and spoke" — large power plants which pour power into transmission lines, which pour it into distribution grids, which pour it into toasters, air conditioners, and televisions.
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Smoke-belching plants rose up from the deserts of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, including several on or near the Navajo Nation, sending their juice to the air conditioners, televisions and "electrified homes" of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
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Among other movers, shares of Havells India Ltd and Lloyd Electric and Engineering fell after they said on Sunday that Havells would buy a unit of Lloyd that sells air conditioners and televisions in a 15.5 billion-rupee deal ($231.14 million).
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In 20183, at a United Nations summit in Kigali, Rwanda, President Barack Obama's administration agreed with 196 other countries to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, an extremely potent greenhouse gas used in air-conditioners, refrigerators and foams.
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Democrats have been fighting to add amendments that would adopt bipartisan measures to reduce the use of heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in refrigerators and air conditioners as well as another that could push to make new homes more energy efficient.
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He also has declared one E.P.A. issue hands-off for him: a program called Energy Star that is overseen by the agency and that provides E.P.A. labeling so consumers can compare the efficiency of washing machines, air-conditioners and other appliances.
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SEOUL, South Korea — This is a partial list of the businesses of Samsung, the South Korean business empire: smartphones, microchips, insurance, gas ovens, hospitals, dishwashers, cargo ships, stocks, microwave ovens, apartment buildings, vacuum cleaners, credit cards, pharmaceuticals, air-conditioners and bidets.
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"When energy demand increases during a heat wave, electrical infrastructure is more likely to overload and fail, causing air conditioners to stop working and outages to communication networks, reducing the ability of people to seek help," according to the report.
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Nevertheless, sales of air-conditioners at Bic Camera, one of the largest electronics chains, jumped close to 70 percent last week compared to the same period a year ago, and not all of those sales can be to the younger generation.
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He then proposed a different series of actions, including running the state's electric utilities fully on renewable power by 2045, requiring buildings to be more energy efficient, promoting electric vehicles and cutting down on hydrofluorocarbons, which are used in air-conditioners.
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Where technology and economics collide This week, Donald Trump has been trumpeting an announcement by Carrier, which makes furnaces and air conditioners, that the company will be keeping about 800 jobs in the United States instead of moving them to Mexico.
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Here are some of the *hottest* deals on the best cooling units: This powerful 8,000 BTU window unit from LG is on sale for under $200 (that's more than $50 off its regular price) and is one of Amazon's top-rated air conditioners.
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UTC, which also makes Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, said it was on track to separate into three companies in the first half of 2020, leaving the company focused on its aerospace units through Collins Aerospace and the Pratt & Whitney engines business.
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"Many of our people are living in damaged structures and most of us are without running water, electricity and without the fans, refrigeration and air conditioners so necessary in the Caribbean during what is the hottest time of the year," the governor said.
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In the early afternoon of December 1st he visited Indianapolis, Indiana's capital, to claim credit for Carrier, a local maker of air conditioners and heaters, deciding to keep some 1,000 manufacturing jobs in America rather than move them to Mexico, as planned.
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Since air-conditioners often have a useful life of more than ten years, it could take until 2038 before the full effects of the Kigali amendment come into force—a long time to wait when demand for cooling is growing so fast.
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He and Patricia were filling requests for five to six large cakes per week, as well as thousands of small pastries from their Astoria, Queens, apartment kitchen, which was outfitted with three air conditioners in the window to keep the space cool.
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"De-leveraging is aimed at the financial system but businesses like us are hit as a knock-on effect," said Chen, whose company exports goods like air conditioners and cars to Africa and expects to generate $100 million in revenue this year.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp halted production at its two Kumamoto plants which produce liquid crystal display modules used in display panels for car navigation systems and semiconductor chips used in power inverters for various electrical products, including air conditioners and hybrid or electric vehicles.
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That has led some contractors, squeezed by high prices of the outgoing refrigerant, to encourage consumers to prematurely buy new air conditioners with the ozone-friendly refrigerant, which itself is set to be nearly phased out in the U.S. within 20 years.
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"De-leveraging is aimed at the financial system but businesses like us are hit as a knock-on effect," said Chen, whose company exports goods like air conditioners and cars to Africa and expects to generate $25.3 million in revenue this year.
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The systems will work particularly well as solar power drops off at the end of the day, just at the time when demand starts to rise as utility customers get home from work and begin running air conditioners or turning on appliances.
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EPA TELLS SCOTUS NOT TO TAKE UP CASE OVER OBAMA RULE: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn't want the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a court ruling that overturned the agency's limits on certain Earth-warming chemicals used in air conditioners.
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Lawsuit over Department of Energy report on energy standards for commercial products California challenged the Energy Department over what it says is the agency's failure to produce final reports for energy standards on items including portable air conditioners and walk-in refrigerators.
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To help reduce power usage and save money, some electric service providers on Monday asked customers that signed up for demand response programs to turn off unnecessary lighting and other electronic devices and raise the thermostat on their air conditioners, among other things.
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The more than 250 pro-democracy candidates who won local office for the first time last Sunday will have to deal with countless tiny community management issues, from the location of bus stops to complaints over air-conditioners that drip too much.
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It contained several notable regulations, including new requirements for renewable fuels, new fuel standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, new energy-efficiency standards for ceiling fans, dishwashers and central air conditioners, and a rule extending paid sick leave to federal contractors.
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"Too much concrete, fewer lakes than we used to have, and all the air-conditioners raise the temperature," said Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a climate change expert in Hanoi, Vietnam, with ISET-International, a nonprofit research group working on disaster risk management in Asia.
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GAZA (Reuters) - As Middle East summer temperatures soar above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), Gazans are struggling to stay cool amid a power crisis, with less than four hours of electricity a day and little chance to run fans and air-conditioners.
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After announcing measures to attract capital flows, the government has now raised import duty on 19 items including air conditioners and washing machines (imports valued at 860 billion rupees in FY18) to address the country's widening current account deficit and weakening currency.
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Wearing a hat protects you from direct sun; sunburns affect your body's ability to cool down and can make you dehydrated, according to the C.D.C. And electric fans will go only so far; air-conditioners are better for keeping your body cool.
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Wearing a hat protects you from direct sun; sunburns affect your body's ability to cool down and can make you dehydrated, according to the C.D.C. And electric fans will go only so far; air-conditioners are better for keeping your body cool.
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Lotfi Zadeh, the computer scientist and electrical engineer whose theories of "fuzzy logic" rippled across academia and industry, influencing everything from linguistics, economics and medicine to air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners and rice cookers, died on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
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Even though surge protectors are well-suited for adding outlets in a concentrated area like behind a media center, you should never daisy-chain multiple power strips, or use them to power high-output devices like space heaters, air-conditioners or hair dryers.
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Homeowners in the close-knit neighborhood are milling about in the grass, chatting about their struggle to move their furniture to the second floors of their homes — without air conditioners — and wondering just how much water the local church has taken on.
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Demand in the lower 48 states of the United States will slide to 89.8 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) next week from 91.6 bcfd this week as power generators burn less gas to keep air conditioners running, according to projections from data provider Refinitiv.
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There is a wide gap between electricity consumption and supply: peak demand during the summer, when people turn on air conditioners to combat temperatures that can reach 50 degrees Celsius, is about 21,000 MW, far exceeding the 13,000 MW the grid is currently providing.
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The metals from Kobe Steel whose specifications have been falsified have been used in a dizzying array of products including air conditioners, Blu-ray discs, car doors, computer chips, copper pipes, heat exchangers, gear boxes, nuclear power plant parts, ship engines and space ships.
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"Manufacturers building products across a range of categories — from low-capacity sensors like lightbulbs and temperature gauges to air conditioners, medical devices and network appliances — leverage the size, safety and security benefits of Express Logic solutions to achieve faster time to market," George wrote.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials said on Friday that subway riders will not get baked in the Big Apple this summer now that a transit repair program to fix faulty air conditioners and other train systems has been kick-started with full funding.
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The Paradise Island Beach Club in the Bahamas was able to slash its energy costs, saving about a quarter million dollars a year, through measures such as installing air conditioners that turn off when a room is cool enough and unplugging unused refrigerators, she said.
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In the eastern city of Dammam, Abdullah Zamil, boss of Zamil Industrial, whose companies make everything from construction materials to air-conditioners, says that the cuts to public spending, as well as the new taxes and levies, have squeezed his profits by about 30%.
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Ultimately, says Baca, "we're personally looking forward to a day when solar is as ubiquitous as AC." Very few places had air conditioners when the technology first became available, and now it's rare to find a builder who would create a new home without it.
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A YouTube clip earlier this year showing the graceless manner in which bosses of Carrier, a maker of air-conditioners, told its workforce that it was moving production to Mexico seemed to confirm every fear about the exodus of jobs and the heartlessness of capitalism.
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Alan and his team are left to sweat it out in the desert in a circus-sized tent full of unreliable air conditioners, waiting for a decent Wi-Fi signal and for a positive sign that they'll get to do their presentation at some point.
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The grid would be most vulnerable in extreme heat on weekday afternoons and evenings when people switch on air conditioners, with the risk rising if the wind drops and the sun is down or other generation is disrupted at the same time, the AEMO said.
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The maker of Otis elevators, Carrier air conditioners, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and other aerospace components faces challenges well known to investors that predate its agreement with President-elect Donald Trump to keep Carrier jobs in Indiana that were slated to move to Mexico.
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The plastic bags used to protect the surface of Samsung's large home appliances — washing machines, refrigerators, TVs and air conditioners — will be swapped out for bags made of recycled materials and bioplastics, which are made from non-fossil fuel materials like starch or sugar cane.
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For scientists to remain passive and simply try to adapt to these conditions, is the equivalent of trying to combat global warming by buying more air conditioners and building dikes around Manhattan, rather than limiting fluorocarbon emissions and finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels.
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Haruumi Shiode reached out to me with his CleanTech concept for a product called the Remo (which remotely controls wall unit air conditioners), and I have to admit the numbers looked interesting even though this is a business model I would have never considered.
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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT TO REDUCE HYDROFLUOROCARBONS Just yesterday, representatives from 170 countries convened a meeting in Kigali, Rwanda which resulted in a legally binding agreement that would significantly limit the use of a specific greenhouse gas commonly found in appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners.
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In addition, Mr. Trump is expected to ease up on his campaign pledge to slap a 35 percent tariff on Carrier air-conditioners imported from Mexico, a nice concession, given that Carrier will still be outsourcing more jobs than it is retaining in the deal.
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If the price of electricity varied from hour to hour as airline tickets do, it might create incentives on high-demand days for consumers to set their air-conditioners a few degrees higher or to postpone running their washer and dryer till the overnight hours.
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Portable air-conditioners are not only more expensive, less efficient and noisier than window units, but they sit entirely inside the home, taking up valuable floor space, and use unsightly venting tubes that look as if they belong on the back of a washing machine.
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In 1975, he created the Energy Efficient Buildings Program (later renamed the Center for Building Science) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and set about studying how making appliances like refrigerators and air-conditioners more efficient could cut energy use significantly and save billions of dollars.
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As my grandmother and I walked that afternoon among the busy vendors on that not-really-pedestrianized Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po, I asked her about Hong Kong's huge, distinctive apartment blocks, the facades of which are dotted with air-conditioners and drying clothing.
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The company is looking into breaking up its portfolio of businesses which include elevators, jet engines and air conditioners, CEO Greg Hayes said Wednesday at the Barclays Industrial Select Conference in Miami, noting a decision on the matter will be made by year-end.
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The need to remove frozen condensation from things spans professions: In Alaska, it is cleared off roads in the middle of the night, during a blizzard, and in warmer climes, it's scraped off overloaded and malfunctioning air-conditioners (to the tune of "Broken," by lovelytheband).
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In his letter, Loeb criticized United Technologies management for turning its back on previous plans to break the company into three businesses - aerospace, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners - and accused United Technologies Chief Executive Greg Hayes of engineering the merger to secure his employment.
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Rep. Scott PetersScott H. PetersFifth congressional Democrat backs Bloomberg in 2020 race Overnight Energy: Republicans eye top spot on Natural Resources panel | GOP lawmakers push back on bill to make greener refrigerators, air conditioners | Green groups sue Trump over California fracking plans Republicans push back on bipartisan bill to make greener refrigerators, air conditioners MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday became the fifth member of Congress to endorse former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergWarren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Poll: Most Democratic voters say billionaires are out of touch with average American The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Impeachment trial moves to senators' questions MORE's 2020 presidential campaign.
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In a remarkable series of documents submitted to a London-based nonprofit called CDP, big-name corporations describe global warming as a chance to sell more weapons systems to the military, more air conditioners to sweltering civilians, and more medications to people afflicted by tropical diseases.
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Kourtney Kardashian/Instagram With a heatwave raging outside and our air conditioners all set to turbo arctic blast, it's hard to even think about moving, let alone what you can possibly clothe your body in that won't be totally drenched in sweat in a matter of minutes.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China increased its coal imports in July by 20.9 percent to their highest in 22.51-3913/2391 years, official data showed on Wednesday, as rising temperatures boosted demand for coal-fired power to run air conditioners in the world's top buyer of the fuel.
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Step Four: Buy that ACNow that you know how many air conditioners you need and the BTUs that are necessary for each one, you're ready to go buy an AC. Everyone has a different budget and different requirements and that will factor into which one you get.
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Trump has also said he would slap 230 percent tariffs on air conditioners made in Mexico by United Technologies Corp's Carrier after the company decided to move production there from Indiana, and on Ford Motor Corp vehicles made in Mexico that are sold in the United States.
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In the mid-220th century, consumers took money they were saving from cheaper food and clothing and used it to buy a wide range of other manufactured goods that had recently been introduced: telephones, electric lighting, cars, radios, washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, air conditioners, and so forth.
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Ten Democratic attorneys general, plus New York City and a Pennsylvania regulator, on Monday notified Energy Secretary Rick Perry of their plan to sue in 60 days for stalling proposed standards for air compressors, commercial boilers, portable air conditioners, power supplies, and walk-in coolers and freezers.
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But while cases of the virus have been confirmed in Texas and Washington DC in recent days, Patz says it's unlikely to spread widely in the United States, where open windows tend to have screens, air conditioners are more common, and municipalities often spray to kill mosquitoes.
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Demand has risen as coal-fired power plants will need to shore up inventory over the coming weeks as households in the southern provinces of Anhui and Fujian and in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai crank up air conditioners due to warmer-than-usual spring temperatures.
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The new car, which is set to deliver in August and is already up for pre-order, will run a smart dashboard based on Alibaba's YunOS software that already powers phones and tablets from other makers along with a host of other appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners.
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What the Rice team found is that patterns of wind and sunshine in Texas complement each other exceedingly well, helping the grid provide enough power even at moments when electricity demand is highest, like during the searing summer heat when hundreds of thousands of air conditioners are switched on.
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The tactic of reaching out to customers, telling them they must turn down their thermostats in cold weather, or stop using their air conditioners on hot days, is a key feature of the long-term plans these utilities are presenting as "reasonable and prudent" before state government regulators.
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While the Paris agreement aims to reduce the use of coal and oil, which produce the carbon dioxide emissions that are the chief cause of global warming, negotiators in Vienna pushed ahead on a deal to ban the use of hydrofluorocarbons, chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.
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The West Hollywood apartment building where Mr. Buck lived, with its simple white facade, dirty with stains dripping from air-conditioners, would be easy to miss on another day, the kind of spot that the novelist Raymond Chandler once described as a good place to have bad habits.
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The West Hollywood apartment building where Mr. Buck lived, with its simple white facade, dirty with stains dripping from air-conditioners, would be easy to miss on another day, the kind of spot that the novelist Raymond Chandler once described as a good place to have bad habits.
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And last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee noted that the Energy Department had missed legal deadlines for more than 25 energy efficiency standards mandated by Congress for appliances like air-conditioners, refrigerators and washing machines, and directed the department to report back on its progress within 30 days.
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The decision affirms last year's ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco, who ordered the government to publish the standards for portable air conditioners, commercial packaged boilers, uninterruptible power supplies and air compressors in the Federal Register – the final step required for the new standards to take effect.
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Greenblatt's conclusion was that a 40 percent cut below 23 levels looked doable, but it would take major changes across a wide variety of different sectors, from boosting clean electricity to ratcheting up building efficiency to managing pastures better to reducing car travel to cutting the HFCs in air conditioners.
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"You can find cameras that look like alarm clocks, stuffed animals, lightbulbs, USBs, picture frames, coat racks, power outlets, light switches, fragrance plugins, speakers, clocks, pens, coffee makers, cleaning supplies, bottles, mirrors, razors, lighters, calculators, TVs, ceiling fans, air conditioners, tissue boxes, lotion bottles, remote controls, dice, and shower heads."
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The 64-year-old boss of Gree, the world's biggest maker of air-conditioners, is everywhere: in television ads, on billboards and, last year, in two places at once—jaywalking in the city of Ningbo while at Gree's headquarters in Zhuhai (police cameras mistakenly captured her visage plastered on a bus).
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At the University of Waterloo, students are improving Alexa's interaction with air conditioners so it understands requests to cool a room to its normal temperature, without requiring the user to specify a number in Celsius, said Fakhri Karray, a professor of electrical and computer engineering who is overseeing the work.
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There are no televisions (or air-conditioners, though they're hardly needed 3,200 feet above sea level), and so guests spend time reading under blooming jacaranda trees in the garden and lingering over bowls of macadamia-nut pesto pasta in the glass-enclosed lodge restaurant, also famous for its sunset cocktail hour.
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And while most people want their air-conditioners to be as inconspicuous as possible, those willing to pay for something with visual appeal might consider Friedrich's Kühl line, which starts at $600 for a window unit and offers $50 panels in colors including cobalt blue, deep red and pink diamond.
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In Thursday's edition of the Federal Register, the Food and Drug Administration is proposing new requirements for food donated to nutrition programs, the Environmental Protection Agency is allowing avocado growers to continue using a certain fungicide and the Energy Department is finalizing new test procedures for air conditioners and heat pumps.
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"We have been stuck in stinking hot and uncomfortable conditions, feeling unwell, because all the camels are coming in and knocking down fences, getting in around the houses and trying to get to water through air-conditioners," Marita Baker, an executive board member for A.P.Y., said in a statement Tuesday.
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As hard as it is to believe by today's standards—with our baffling inability to reach global consensus on human-caused climate change—the world got its collective ass together to curb emissions of ozone-depleting halocarbons, from compounds produced by fridges and air conditioners to aerosol sprays and medical sterilizers.
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Nojima Corp soared more than 15 percent after the chain store operator of electric appliances raised its net profit forecast for the six months through September 2018 to 7.2 billion yen ($64.09 million) from 6 billion yen on factors including strong sales of air conditioners during the summer heat wave.
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Coal's first headache, the falling energy intensity of economic growth (ie, less energy is needed to produce the same levels of growth), is a common feature in the rich world, as economies switch from manufacturing towards services, use more LED lighting and make appliances such as refrigerators and air-conditioners more energy-efficient.
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Apparently aimed at older people, it's designed to link smart devices that already exist in the home, whether that's lights, camera, fire alarms, air conditioners or whatever It trundles around on wheels, waiting for you to prod its touchscreen face to make video calls or browse the internet or control your home.
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His collaboration with Mr. Klein taught him to cultivate the void: In drawings they speculated about building wall-free environments of moving air, with beds cushioned by pulsing air jets in open-air rooms enclosed by air curtains under forced-air roofs and comfortable environments powered by "air-conditioners" hidden below ground.
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Tuesday's edition of the Federal Register contains a final rule to allow travelers with breathing problems to carry oxygen machines onboard flights, a new rule from the Federal Trade Commission to allow manufacturers to post product warranty information online and new energy conservation standards from the Energy Department for air conditioners and hearing equipment.
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Items on the list are ranked based on the potential amount of greenhouse gases they can avoid or remove, and though some are directly tied to emissions — moderating use of air-conditioners and refrigerators, for instance, is number one — sociocultural shifts like adopting a plant-rich diet or family planning are also ranked highly.
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There's a good reason countries agreed to reduce their emissions of chemicals used in old fridges: Another study that came out earlier this week found that ozone-depleting gases, including the chemicals in air conditioners and refrigerators, were responsible for about half of the Arctic sea ice melt that took place between 1955 and 2005.
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