by University of Birmingham, July 10, 2018 in WUWT

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According to the report, if we are to take cooling demand seriously, the key stages to move towards a solution for cooling demand are:

• Reducing the energy required for cooling: getting industry to adopt high efficiency cooling technologies and using maintenance to deliver optimum performance.

• Reducing the need for cooling through better building design

• Systems level thinking across built environment and transport

• Harnessing waste resources: ‘wrong time’ renewables; waste cold; and waste heat.

• Considering the strategies and skills required for installing appliances and maintaining them in order to maximise efficiency and reduce energy demand

• Creating a model for delivery of affordable cooling to those in rural and urban communities based on the energy needs of local requirements, rather than imposing a ‘one size fits all’ approach

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