{"id":178977,"date":"2023-12-24T00:38:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mits-breakthrough-cooling-homes-without-electricity"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:38:26","slug":"mits-breakthrough-cooling-homes-without-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mits-breakthrough-cooling-homes-without-electricity","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s Breakthrough: Cooling Homes Without Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-breakthrough-cooling-homes-without-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: on a scorching hot day, the sweet hum of an air conditioner feels like a lifeline. But what if that lifeline is actually tying us into a knot of environmental woes?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, our reliance on air conditioning is heating up the planet just as much as it\u2019s cooling our homes.<\/p>\n<p>Enter a team of ingenious researchers from MIT with a revolutionary idea: aerogel. This isn\u2019t just another tech buzzword; it\u2019s a potential game-changer in our fight against climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it: on a scorching hot day, the sweet hum of an air conditioner feels like a lifeline. But what if that lifeline is actually tying us into a knot of environmental woes? It turns out, our reliance on air conditioning is heating up the planet just as much as it\u2019s cooling our homes. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178977","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}