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2014.12.03

What Customers Want From an HVAC Company

Dec 2, 2014 Amazing customer service skills   Technicians are on the ground in the battle to win business from customers and should be trained as such. This means ensuring each technician is affa...

2014.12.02

R134a alternative is 'virtually non-flammable'

01 December 2014 SOUTH KOREA: Two new refrigerants described as “virtually non-flammable” are being touted as potential alternatives to R134a in mobile air conditioning systems.   The new blends,...

2014.12.02

Danfoss steps up fight against counterfeits

01 December 2014 CHINA: Danfoss has stepped up its anti-counterfeit activities after a survey last year found that as many as 7% of Maneurop brand compressors in China were counterfeit.   Since t...

2014.12.02

How the EU can progress towards an 'Energy Union'

IEA review praises bloc’s low-carbon leadership but notes that deeper market integration is essential to manage costs of clean-energy shift 1 December 2014   Brussels The European Union has...

2014.12.02

A Journey to Absolute Zero Through HISE

December 1, 2014 On November 12, Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle took Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) students on a journey to the lowest possible temperature - Absolute Zero, where atoms...

2014.12.02

Venstar Thermostat Update Enables Automated Demand Response

December 1, 2014 CHATSWORTH, Calif. - VenstarR, a leading thermostat and energy management systems supplier, has announced the release of its new Firmware 3.14 update for its ColorTouchR residential and commercial color touch screen, programmable thermostats. This update delivers added automated demand response (ADR) and equipment fault detection (EFD) in compliance with California’s Title 24. &nb...

2014.12.02

Latest Edition of Green Building Standard Now Available from

December 1, 2014 ATLANTA - New requirements to further reduce energy and environmental impacts of buildings are contained in the 2014 version of the green building standard from ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).   ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2014, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Ris...

2014.12.03

North America Humidifier Market Forecast to Reach $300.4 Mil

December 1, 2014 ALBANY, N.Y. - The North America humidifier market was valued at $212.4 million in 2013, and is forecast to reach $300.4 million by 2020, according to a new market research report published by Transparency Market Research.   The market, on the basis of products, is segmented into ultrasonic humidifiers, evaporative humidifiers, warm-mist humidifiers, vaporizers, and steam to ...

2014.12.02

Headline News Volume 250

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2014.11.24

Energy free cooling technology revealed

28 November 2014 US researchers have demonstrated zero-carbon air conditioning that doesn’t need an electricity supply.   The technology is based on the principle that warm objects on Earth radiate energy mainly at mid-infrared wavelengths. The atmosphere is transparent in a specific window of the mid-infrared, so radiation from warm objects escapes through the atmosphere into the cold of spa...