The race to design individual cooling devices
2020-02-08
According to the IEA « Baseline Scenario », energy needs for space cooling could triple by 2050 (see IIR website news (1)).The home cooling industry is a large market: for example, in the US – where three-quarters of all homes use an air conditioner– air conditioning costs Americans USD29 billion per year, according to the US Department of Energy (2) .Cooling individuals could be less energy-consuming and a lot cheaper than cooling entire buildings.
