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Can ACs cool the world without warming it?

Grist

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. How will it change the HVAC units and window ACs we’ve grown to rely on?

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I Converted a Home Fully to Electricity. Here’s How It Worked — and What It Cost

GreenTechMedia

It is more cost effective to add solar and storage than to improve the efficiency of the building shell, or to replace existing HVAC equipment prior to its end of life with new high efficiency equipment. In operation this high efficiency inverter-based HVAC system was almost impossible to hear. Time to burn that bridge to natural gas.

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Green New Deals For The World Are Green Good Deals

CleanTechnica

C global warming, air pollution kills over 7 million people worldwide each year, and diminishing fossil fuel resources portend social instability. The core of the problem is the belief by some leaders that solving global warming will be expensive and drain the economy of their country.