{"id":213852,"date":"2025-05-12T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/uk-lab-promises-air-con-revolution-without-polluting-gases"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:06:59","slug":"uk-lab-promises-air-con-revolution-without-polluting-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/uk-lab-promises-air-con-revolution-without-polluting-gases","title":{"rendered":"UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-lab-promises-air-con-revolution-without-polluting-gases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The soft, waxy \u201csolid refrigerant\u201d being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning revolution that could eliminate the need for greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>The substance\u2019s temperature can vary by more than 50 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) under pressure, and unlike the gases currently used in appliances solid refrigerants, it does not leak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t contribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/global+warming\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">global warming<\/a>, but also they are potentially more energy efficient,\u201d Xavier Moya, a professor of materials physics at the University of Cambridge, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soft, waxy \u201csolid refrigerant\u201d being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning revolution that could eliminate the need for greenhouse gases. The substance\u2019s temperature can vary by more than 50 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) under pressure, and unlike the gases currently used in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213852","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}