Humans are increasingly reliant on air conditioning, but its use contributes to global warming. As the world warms and demand rises, how can we make A/C sustainable? In Spain and India, Kal Penn explores two innovative solutions.
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Global rich 5 per cent must pay 50 per cent wealth as climate tax as they are responsible for maximum carbon emissions recent G20 Finance ministers agreed to it and it's time for rich to pay for environmental damage!
more shade making trees and water streams could be a start then solar powered means of cooling vs more c02
Reflective roofs decrease precipitation by 4% (less rain). Green surfaces (i.e. mother nature) absorb heat… allowing moisture from vegetation to evaporate into the atmosphere. We can make it worse by continuing to replace grass lands with concrete (reflective or not) and by creating more synthetic man-made top surfaces.
This summer has been very harsh in India with some parts recorded upwards of 50 degrees Celsius. It amazes me how such a big problem of heating is crippling at least half of India and yet we are not doing any advances for sustainable solutions. Everyone installing ACs only make things worse for ambient temperatures. This is wake up call and we must act now.
Why don't cities (or even individuals) build cooling towers aka wind catchers? You could reduce your electricity consumption for a/c. Put them in homes, schools or other even in community buildings for people to cool off if the grid goes down. Look into ancient windcatcher cooling technology. Also, there is the Persian ice house, or how to make ice in the desert.
Thanks for making this video. At my house in Western Australia from solar panels on the roof we generate and export five times more electricity than we consume. We have zero air conditioning and the house remains cool on 40 degree C days. As climate change increases and the environment heats up, there are lots of passive systems that can be used to further cool the house if and when needed. It is all a matter of attitude and a willingness to think and continue to learn.
nice ad for skycool tm
I suggest we remove air conditioning from all NBC offices.
Some homeless would love that skycool cart.
is this harold or kumar
As always rich people can use their A/C systems as they want but poor people must live at 27 Celsius in Summer)
Electric is very expensive
i blame it on the "architects" who care more about looks than function- with no concern of location/sighting/orientation. in much of the sunny usa you will save about 15% of your heating coolling costs by just orienting the long side of the building South. then there is placing most glass on the south side, plus adding moveable window insulation systems to every section of glass. more insulation is needed as well and shading via plants on the north, east and west sides. and more simple things like ventilation.
Modern AC is chipped to only turn on the full gear at 68.
hmmm reflective solutions technically has double-sword effect. they take out heat inside while making the outer environment hotter affecting an urban space's microclimate
that 's a realistic solution
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Nice..
Ban them?
You don't need to go Stanford to solve this simple problem. Just go to you grandparents house they havs technology m
This is an innovative solution! ✨🙌
300 million euros to pain the ceiling white and putting evaporative swamp coolers. Seems fishy. 😊
They should design a new cart where the distance between the roof and the base(on which vegies are kept) of the cart is very less.
Alternative cooling techniques, although cheap relative to AC's but it will not be effective if we do not control out global warming this century.
Sometimes I feel that all that heat and humidity is for the plants to grow. Since that balance is off , it's trying to fix itself but we aren't allowing it. So till it achieves that target, nature won't stop.
Just because something is old (like an older technology) doesn't make it outdated or primitive. If it's survived long, it probably means it still works.
Our ancestors were not dumb. Learn from those lessons. They used naturally available resources and live in harmony with nature…. Not create new problems and solutions that create even more newer problems …
I think the reason why Spain don't want anyone to put air-conditions below 27 degrees Celsius is because, they want to conserve electricity and control the climate.
architecture is just only aesthetics…..
IT IS ENGINEERING technology
PLANT TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can do amazing things and solve our pollution and energy consumption yet we focus on making wars, greed, and differences like skin color religion culture, etc.
If Skycool can be used for Solar panels, it would be a knockout combination
Inspiring..
But a partial solution as it is replacing AC with some other man made metal/ equipment (for which carbon footage is not clear). Could possibly work for humans, but could not stop the actual damage.
instead of reflecting light back "to the sun",
why can't we absorb it and transfer it quickly to the ground?
isnt this the natural way? the jungle doesnt reflect heat "back to the sun".
could we research material science for the solution? transfer heat quickly to the ground from the roof and walls.
Apart from roof coating, air conditioning systems should use induction/solar heating with adsorption based cooling for getting over all minimum energy consumption. Unfortunately, these type of AC systems are not being given adequate importance by manufacturers and policymakers.