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...Masanori Togawa said European efforts to reduce dependence on Russian energy and tougher environmental regulations have presented the group with “the biggest opportunity” to expand sales of energy-efficient heating...
...The market for artificial intelligence is not the only thing heating up. So, too, are the chips and servers that power the cutting-edge technology, driving demand for more efficient cooling solutions....
...“Nobody will support decarbonisation if it means giving up heating their home in the winter or cooling it in the summer. Or if the cost of doing so is prohibitive.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 26. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...El Niño can be seen as the “heating” phase of a naturally occurring climate cycle in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Its opposing, cooling phase is called La Niña....
...As the effects of climate change become ever harder to ignore, homebuyers may start questioning just how far they will go in their quest for cooling comfort....
...Hacking Inc....
...“A vast majority of our industry rely on some sort of heating or cooling process,” she says....
...Antonis Koutsoumpas, 30, a mathematics teacher assigned mid-year to Ios, spent three months in a room without a kitchen, heating or hot water....
...“The development of an El Niño will most likely lead to a new spike in global heating and increase the chance of breaking temperature records,” he said....
...A state-of-the-art heating-cooling-ventilation system was also put in. The natural hole became a skylight, with custom-built electronic window panels and blackout blinds....
...Wages in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan have grown tenfold since the company set up shop there in 1992. “More discouraging than that is the [staff] turnover rate....
...The so-called “suite tents” have king-size beds, lounge areas, en-suite bathrooms, evaporative cooling fans and wood stoves, Pendleton blankets, plus 70 sq ft decks....
...The latest documents are a revision of a plan leaked last week that recommends limiting central heating and cooling in buildings as well as exempting coal-fired power stations from emissions reductions targets...
...In 2010, nuclear provided more than 11 per cent of Japan’s total energy, including transport and heating, and the country had ambitions to increase that figure further....
...Palatial sleeping tents, along a track blooming with hibiscus, have been reorientated according to the angle of the sun, affecting shade and light, heating and cooling....
...Air conditioning encouraged a population shift to the southern US — and the growth of tropical megacities, from Dubai to Jakarta. Air conditioners have a big downside....
...Turbines accumulated ice as they spun in cold, sleet-filled skies — lacking the heating kits that are standard issue further north — and their electricity production fell....
...“The basic cause of Marsquakes is the long-term cooling of the planet,” said Dr Banerdt. “As it cools, it contracts and the brittle outer layers crack.”...
...Cooling, not heating, is the main concern of many US commercial building owners, driving as much as half of peak demand on a hot summer day....
...“Heating and cooling are one of the biggest drivers of energy demand growth.”...
...Growth may be cooling off, however, Costa says. “We are at maximum historic value and the potential for increase isn’t as strong.”...
...and cooling systems....
...“That’s imploded now from the stress of cooling. It’ll be a mass of fragments.” The tolerances required for heating, shaping and cooling of glass require a long learning curve....
...The heating up in price growth echoes similar trends throughout the eurozone, and emphasises European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi’s recent comments that the spectre of deflation appears to be in the...
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