air conditioner

“There are three major components. One is having to do with the manufacturing and transport of those, and sort of the embodied emissions. And that's about five percent of the emissions that we see coming from air conditioners. There's another 35% that comes fro…”

“But it turns out that humidity is using on average a little bit more than half of the electricity of our air conditioner.”

“So I mentioned at the beginning that we're around four percent of greenhouse gas emissions for air conditioners globally, and that's a big number. I think most of the people who are listening to this podcast will be well calibrated to that number, but It's clo…”

“I don't know if ice solves the electricity consumption and CO two emissions part of the problem, but it certainly solves a really important problem about air conditioning, which is that air conditioners are the number one cause of blackouts on the electrical g…”

“What I think is really interesting about all these heat pumps coming online for heating purposes to replace natural gas is that this disrupts the sales cycle of air conditioners as well as a side benefit. So now you have air conditioners, which would last for …”

“So what air conditioners do today in a nice commercial building in the U.S. Is they cool air from 90 degrees down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit to get it really, really dry, and then they heat it back up to 70 degrees to make it a comfortable temperature.”