{"id":80552,"date":"2018-07-12T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cooling-buildings-worldwide"},"modified":"2018-07-14T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T23:08:07","slug":"cooling-buildings-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cooling-buildings-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Cooling buildings worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cooling-buildings-worldwide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 40 percent of all the energy consumed by buildings worldwide is used for space heating and cooling. With the warming climate as well as growing populations and rising standards of living\u2014especially in hot, humid regions of the developing world\u2014the level of cooling and dehumidification needed to ensure comfort and protect human health is predicted to rise precipitously, pushing up global energy demand.<\/p>\n<p>Much discussion is now focusing on replacing the greenhouse gases frequently used as refrigerants in today\u2019s air conditioners. But another pressing concern is that most existing systems are extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a>-inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main reason they\u2019re inefficient is that they have two tasks to perform,\u201d says Leslie Norford, the George Macomber (1948) Professor in Construction Management in the Department of Architecture. \u201cThey need to lower temperature and remove moisture, and doing both those things together takes a lot of extra energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-07-cooling-worldwide.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;07-cooling-worldwide.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 percent of all the energy consumed by buildings worldwide is used for space heating and cooling. With the warming climate as well as growing populations and rising standards of living\u2014especially in hot, humid regions of the developing world\u2014the level of cooling and dehumidification needed to ensure comfort and protect human health is predicted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80552","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80637,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80552\/revisions\/80637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}