This 12 minute PBS Weathered video explains wet bulb temperature and shows some good maps and graphs. She tells how humans (and other living things) cannot keep cool when the humidity rises and causes the wet bulb temperature to rise. The person’s core temperature rises and they have heat exhaustion or heat stroke. This can
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This is a Floodlight article about Dark Roof companies and lobbyists trying to eliminate the laws cities are passing to make roofs white. https://floodlightnews.org/this-little-known-dark-roof-lobby-may-be-making-your-city-hotter/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
Good Floodlight article about electric grids in neighborhoods and how the poor are suffering – inequality. https://floodlightnews.org/redlining-shaped-the-power-grid-communities-of-color-are-still-paying-the-price/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
This system uses a heater and cooler that is fixed with transfer into moving fluids. I wonder if they have tried changing it to a system where the heater and cooler is like a regular refrigerator where the heater and cooler moves around with the transfer into fixed locations. So the magnetothermal metal would move.
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This short Ted Talk about storing heat in bricks. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2423128204690212/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Uses plastic inserts that eliminate mortar. Foam insulation keeps the temperature stable. https://www.facebook.com/reel/556593630136636/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
That’s hard to believe! I would just put the equipment in a sealed rack with a lot of well filtered airflow. Someone suggested Fluorinert. https://www.facebook.com/reel/464912799258554?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
The city of Esbjerg, Denmark is replacing its coal fired city heating system with an amazing giant heat pump, biomass boilers and waste burning boilers. The refrigerant is CO2. Read the description. This is a long 43 minutes but is very comprehensive and interesting. The cost is about 40 million Euros.
This is really interesting. A catalytic converter for a wood stove. 1 min. YouTube video.
This HPWH made by Rheem requires only a 120VAC wall outlet. It requires a plastic condensate drain tube. It uses about 350 to 450 Watts. Theirs drew 65 kWh for the month of August. Their electric resistance water heater used 290 kWh average per month. The water heater cost $2533.00 from Home Depot. This article
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