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Electricity cannot be cost-effectively stored even for short periods of time. Consequently, wholesale electricity prices vary widely across hours of the day with peak prices frequently exceeding off-peak prices by a factor of ten or more. Most analyses of energy-efficiency policies ignore this...
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How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate conditions and economic activity across a nation's cities will together determine industrial average exposure to climate risk. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat...
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heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …
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intensified significant waves (~2.2 m at Karwar and Panaji), sea surface cooling (~5°C at Calicut), and moderate surge (~50 cm at …
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that what seems to be the transnational diffusion of mechanical cooling is best understood as an outcome of multisited … sophisticated interpretation of how mechanical cooling remakes practices and the places in which they are reproduced. This …
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Rotary desiccant wheel cooling system operates on the principle of adsorption dehumidification and evaporative cooling …. Due to these merits, solar powered rotary desiccant wheel cooling system has recognized as one of good alternatives to … summarize recent research developments related to solar powered rotary desiccant wheel cooling system and to provide information …
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Adsorption cooling machines are thermally driven systems. Solar radiation, waste energy, as well as geothermal energy … can be used to power these systems. Theoretical study and simulation work of adsorption-based cooling systems require the …
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LDCS (Liquid desiccant cooling systems), capable of achieving dehumidification and cooling with low-grade heat input … assumptions are made about its concentration and temperature in the algorithm. Supply air conditions, cooling capacity, COP … (capacity and coefficient of performance) and CR (circulation rate) per unit cooling capacity and hot water temperature …
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coefficient of performance (COP) is comparable to a conventional bulk element TE cooler, the cooling power density drops off … TE design and a conventional bulk TE device where it is found that the lower cooling power density of the hybrid TE … device may be advantageous in low cooling power density applications over relatively large areas where the low-cost nature of …
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Single cooling and desalination technologies require a high amount of energy to produce cooling and fresh water … appears also interesting. The major increases in cooling and desalination demands occur in locations where solar energy is … abundant. This article reviews the latest research works on systems able to carry out cooling and/or desalination using solar …
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