{"id":153930,"date":"2022-12-30T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mits-zero-electricity-cooling-system-could-tackle-the-hottest-regions-of-the-world"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:28:55","slug":"mits-zero-electricity-cooling-system-could-tackle-the-hottest-regions-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/mits-zero-electricity-cooling-system-could-tackle-the-hottest-regions-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s zero-electricity cooling system could tackle the hottest regions of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-zero-electricity-cooling-system-could-tackle-the-hottest-regions-of-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claiming 3rd place, we look at how a zero-electricity cooling system could meet the world\u2019s growing AC needs.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that as the Earth warms, the technology needed by humans to stay cool will only make the environment hotter is one of the great ironies of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where a novel device unveiled by MIT researchers in October comes in.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ibrahim Can\/Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The number of energy-intensive air conditioning systems is projected to quadruple to 14 billion by 2050, putting a strain on existing power grids. Better yet, the increase in cooling alone will account for a 0.5-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures, according to the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming 3rd place, we look at how a zero-electricity cooling system could meet the world\u2019s growing AC needs. The fact that as the Earth warms, the technology needed by humans to stay cool will only make the environment hotter is one of the great ironies of climate change. Here\u2019s where a novel device unveiled by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153930","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}