Wayne Huizenga flies along composed in the back of a Range Rover, the backseat shaded by tinted windows and air-conditioned cool.
An innovative air-conditioning system circulated cool breezes through grills in the ceilings and floors.
The next stop was the frozen north of Sapporo, more like a mid-west American town than Japan, with cool temperatures and an air-conditioned stadium with a spectacular Teflon-coated roof.
The Long Pavilion, for instance, which houses the main lobby, is positioned to catch the prevailing winds, so it stays cool without air-conditioning.
Grefe uses dreampop ambience and simple acoustic guitar lines to create magnetic pop hooks that sometimes feel like the crackling of an open-air fire on a cool evening.
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Some are saying that the heat wave sweeping across the U.S. is driving people into cool, air-conditioned theaters, and in a poll posted yesterday, 59% of readers voted that the heat does, in fact, make them more likely to go to the theater.
Husna felt that they had forgotten her, and she wanted to be forgotten, to stay here alone in these rooms, with their rush mats, their pieces of scavenged furniture, and an air-conditioner that almost kept the apartment cool, dribbling water onto the pavement below.
Think about it this way: If you haven't upgraded your home yet, it's not just heat or cool air that's escaping -- it's energy and money that you are wasting.
The effect is achieved by trickling seawater over porous cardboard screens -- called evaporators -- which cool and humidify the dry desert air, creating a favorable growing environment for crops.
The gravel remains cool until it is needed to restart the air-chilling process.
There is no air-conditioning, but the traditional construction ensures a reliable flow of cool air.
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That's largely thanks to Intel's Airflow Cooling technology, which rearranges all of the heat-generating components in a row and draws in cool air from outside the notebook, instead of within.
Other incremental improvements range from solar panels that run the air conditioning during stand-still, so fuel is not used to cool down the car, to small electric motors tucked away in the doors and powered by batteries that are charged when a car is braking.
Residents in Boston can cool off in parks with water spray features or in air-conditioned community centers across the city.
In east L.A., downtown, the beach enclaves and little neighborhoods between the biggies, a refreshing air of sophistication, individualism and artistry is co-mingling with Cali-cool.
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Another, which would oppose warming, is a rise in the quantity of sulphate-based aerosols, which encourage cloud formation and thus cool the air by reflecting sunlight back into space.
Among low-lying fields, where the sugarcane had been heavily watered, mist rose and cool air enveloped him.
Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains.
In higher-temperature climates, for example, the cost of installing and running the air conditioning necessary to properly cool the lead acid batteries can represent up to 50 percent of the total power consumed at each cell tower site.
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As you'll see if you check out the video after the break, it's built by Compal and includes a 13-inch 1080p display with a quad-core Temash chip, which when combined with its Turbo Dock delivers some serious power -- going from 8 W to 15 W, with extra air flow delivered through the connector to keep it cool.
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