An alternative to harmful air conditioning pollutants, this environmentally-friendly prototype stores energy for more ...

Air conditioning, whether it’s in your car or your house, works like a refrigerator. Air conditioning is based on two principles: first, when a liquid becomes a vapor or a gas it absorbs heat, and ...

Do high efficiency air conditioners and heat pumps (inverter drives) really reduce indoor humidity and clean your indoor air in Florida? I would like to start off by explaining the three types of ...

As the summer heats up, air conditioners will be cranking up to full blast in office buildings and homes to keep people cool. They provide welcome relief from sweltering weather and an obvious ...

Many Americans are turning to their air conditioners to combat the current heat wave. These artificial breezes are a relatively novel innovation, however, as this history of air conditioning explains.

Over this scorching hot Fourth of July, millions of Americans from California to Louisiana will put their air conditioning into overdrive. Who could blame them? AC can be a matter of life and death.

Until the 20th century, only the wealthy or dying might have witnessed someone trying to cool the air indoors—even though building a fire to keep warm in the winter would have been perfectly ...