Other major problem areas include the heating and cooling air systems as well as the water heater.
Yeang's designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents.
Designers claim that plants not only provide a beautiful alternative to other materials used in construction, they also offer additional benefits, including noise reduction, natural cooling, air conditioning and a psychological boost to those who use the buildings.
Current HVAC systems get rid of stale, germ-ridden indoor air by cooling or heating fresh outdoor air and blowing it through ventilation ducts, a process that gobbles electricity.
The disease is usually spread through mist that comes from a water source, such as cooling towers, air conditioning or showers.
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The heating and cooling systems use air that has been earth-tempered drawn into a large tube and passed through the ground, which has a consistent temperature that is cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Onitsuka borrowed from the air-cooling methods used in motorcycles to create vented marathon shoes.
Heating and cooling experts say central air-conditioning systems should be serviced annually to remove dirt, change filters and check the level of Freon, a refrigerant.
While the smallest eruptions have caused only minor local disruptions, the larger ones have entered passing fronts, cooling temperatures, altering air pressure, and increasing precipitation.
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We have ductless evaporative cooling system with no air conditioning.
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Thus, India's Shree Cement, which has long suffered from water shortages, developed the world's most water-efficient method for making cement, in part by using air-cooling rather than water-cooling.
The large center air inlet further optimizes cooling of the engine and the front brakes.
When its custodians noticed how unusually dusty the dinosaur area was getting, Aramark's technicians traced the problem to air flow from the cooling system and rejiggered it.
In addition to all this, the Genesis uses liquid cooling around the motherboard, and an air-based system on the video cards.
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They soon found that duct tape leaked air so badly much of the cooling and heating was wasted--and that the tape frequently shrunk, dried up or separated.
The Hailstorm II pairs an advanced liquid cooling system with a blustery current of cold air driven by three front intake fans and a large rear exhaust fan.
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They are curbing run-away energy with a combination of micro-level controls (for individual servers, power distribution units, air-flow controllers, and cooling units) as well as macro-level controls and policies (for racks of servers, rows of racks, and entire data centers).
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According to the report, TXU --Texas' largest provider of electricity--did not have adequate competition in its wholesale markets during the hottest days of 2005, when reserve power plants are called into service to help power air conditioners, fans and other cooling units.
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It can end up in artificial water supply systems, including air conditioning systems, water services and cooling towers.
All air trapped during this procedure is then directed through an electric cooling compressor situated behind the propellers.
As many as 15 percent of the 5, 000 previously approved welds in the reactor's auxiliary plumbing, containment dome and spent-fuel cooling systems were X-rayed and found to be defective due to air pockets, poor soldiering and heat damage.
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In extremely high external temperatures, the cooling circuit for the battery can be additionally boosted with the aid of the air conditioning system.
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Some 110, 000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant's power and cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors and spewing radiation into the surrounding air, soil and water.
In April, a failed cooling device in turn caused a break-down in a mechanism that cleans the air in Mir's cabin of carbon dioxide.
Even in places where power was not disrupted, people with no air-conditioning were advised to spend the day in a library, a cooling center or some other such place to avoid heat exhaustion.
In the open-air cafes on a warm summer's evening, Bulgarians are sipping their own cooling drinks and refreshing cocktails.
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.
Among the innovations: a cooling system that recycles heat from generators to power an absorption chiller which, in turn, sucks in fresh air through landscaped terraces.
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