{"id":111674,"date":"2020-08-20T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/cold-tube-cooling-system-uses-half-the-energy-of-an-air-conditioner"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:22:59","slug":"cold-tube-cooling-system-uses-half-the-energy-of-an-air-conditioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/cold-tube-cooling-system-uses-half-the-energy-of-an-air-conditioner","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCold Tube\u201d cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cold-tube-cooling-system-uses-half-the-energy-of-an-air-conditioner.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Air conditioners are a convenient way to cool down offices and homes, but they use huge amounts of energy in the process. A team of scientists has been developing an alternative solution for those warm summer months called the Cold Tube, which works by absorbing body heat emitted from a person and can use around half the energy of traditional systems as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The notoriously bad energy efficiency of air conditioners has motivated the development a range of environmentally friendly solutions, from <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/mistbox-air-conditioner-precooler\/38139\/\">attachments<\/a> that use water mist to pre-cool the units to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/solar-orc-reverse-air-conditioner\/23696\/\">solar-powered systems<\/a> that produce hot water at the same time. In 2018, Richard Branson even launched a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/branson-global-cooling-challenge-air-conditioner\/57464\/\">US$3 million competition<\/a> aimed at developing more energy efficient air conditioners.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the research team behind the Cold Tube has been investigating next-generation systems that keep people cool in more efficient ways. Made up of scientists from the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Singapore-ETH Centre, the team took aim at the dehumidification process that is a critical function of today\u2019s air conditioning systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air conditioners are a convenient way to cool down offices and homes, but they use huge amounts of energy in the process. A team of scientists has been developing an alternative solution for those warm summer months called the Cold Tube, which works by absorbing body heat emitted from a person and can use around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}