http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/08/thermal-rediscovery/ Same old blog, brand new place Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:14:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/08/thermal-rediscovery/comment-page-1/#comment-57973 Jonathan Marks Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:15:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/06/08/thermal-rediscovery/#comment-57973 Its rather frightening to walk through the aisles of many Dutch electrical stores. They have come out in a rash of (fairly) cheap Chinese air-conditioning units. For the few days that it does get above 30 in this country, most of us make do with a fan. The tragedy is that most of these units are terribly inefficient - and most customers have no clue about what size they really need to do the job properly. The result - a terrible waste of energy. Isn't that something for public broadcasting to investigate? Its rather frightening to walk through the aisles of many Dutch electrical stores. They have come out in a rash of (fairly) cheap Chinese air-conditioning units. For the few days that it does get above 30 in this country, most of us make do with a fan. The tragedy is that most of these units are terribly inefficient – and most customers have no clue about what size they really need to do the job properly. The result – a terrible waste of energy. Isn’t that something for public broadcasting to investigate?

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