How do we stay cool in a warming world?
The Climate Question
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Cooling Commercial Buildings and Office Buildings in the Gulf Region
This particular model of commercial buildings and office buildings is emerged in Northern European cities. Because so much sun is coming through the windows and is just heating the building, like sitting in a huge greenhouse. The estimates are in some of those Gulf cities that in the summer cooling requirements are in range of 60 to 70 percent of all energy use. And let's not forget the units themselves, leak potent, planet warming gases which again adds to more global warming. Which means more air conditioning units are needed. We're on repeat. It's a cyclical process and somebody needs to break it.
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