Purifying indoor air could cut the cost of running fans and chillers by up to 30%.
New chillers, Stirling engines, solar arrays, and transmission lines must be fabricated, shipped, and installed.
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Its share is 60% in wine chillers, despite competition from Sanyo and General Electric.
The university added 2 million gallons of thermal storage, which enables them to run their chillers overnight.
These saving arise from the elimination of CRAC units and chillers, plus the ability to use smaller generators, UPS units, and much smaller air conditioning units.
Thanks to an artesian well and an independent generator (which powered old submarine chillers to keep the air breathable), staff could have lived down here for months.
To do that they need not one but two energy-hogging air chillers, one to make liquid oxygen and another to remove CO 2 from the flue gases.
Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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Second, we need to create social and financial incentives to convince industries to invest in more energy efficient boilers, chillers, air conditioners, and other pieces of equipment, even when the older, less efficient equipment is still running properly.
Other ideas include drilling into the aquifer beneath the city and pumping cool water along the tunnels (a method already used to cool the Royal Festival Hall), or installing chillers in the trains that would freeze blocks of ice while the trains were above ground which would then keep them frosty on the underground sections.
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