{"id":208332,"date":"2025-03-11T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/worlds-first-kilowatt-scale-elastocaloric-green-cooling-device-developed"},"modified":"2025-03-11T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:12:35","slug":"worlds-first-kilowatt-scale-elastocaloric-green-cooling-device-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/worlds-first-kilowatt-scale-elastocaloric-green-cooling-device-developed","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first kilowatt-scale elastocaloric green cooling device developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-kilowatt-scale-elastocaloric-green-cooling-device-developed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed the world\u2019s first kilowatt-scale elastocaloric cooling device. The device can stabilize indoor temperatures at a comfortable 21\u00b0C\u201322\u00b0C in just 15 minutes, even when outdoor temperatures reach between 30\u00b0C and 31\u00b0C, marking a significant breakthrough toward the commercial application of elastocaloric solid-state cooling technology.<\/p>\n<p>The research findings have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08549-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, offering a promising solution to combat climate change and accelerate the low-carbon transformation of the global cooling industry.<\/p>\n<p>As global warming intensifies, the demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/air+conditioning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">air conditioning<\/a> and cooling has been growing, with cooling already accounting for 20% of global electricity consumption. Mainstream vapor compression cooling technology relies on refrigerants with high global warming potential (GWP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed the world\u2019s first kilowatt-scale elastocaloric cooling device. The device can stabilize indoor temperatures at a comfortable 21\u00b0C\u201322\u00b0C in just 15 minutes, even when outdoor temperatures reach between 30\u00b0C and 31\u00b0C, marking a significant breakthrough toward the commercial application of elastocaloric solid-state cooling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208332","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}